The palace was built around the year 500 on the northern slopes of the Sixth Hill. Anastasius I is credited with its Hall of Anastasius. It was used at times in the 10th century, while the Great Palace stayed the main residence. Alexios I Komnenos moved there in the late 11th century, and Manuel I (1143 to 1180) added fortifications and halls, including the Hall of Irene and the Polytimos Oikos. The Palaiologan emperors restored it after 1261.
The article names no architect and gives no materials or dimensions. The area is now mostly overbuilt, and only literary sources describe the palace. The text says it was destroyed after 1453, but its evidence is an account of pillaging.
Only the Prison of Anemas survives from the 12th-century structures.
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