Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 173
sformed into a mosque.1 Here they are merelyornamental reliefs in the form of doors built into the wall of the naos to rightand left above the main entrance, and are surmounted by a pediment withacroteria of acanthus leaves: the panels here are alternately small and large asat Sta Sabina, but… … Fig. 85. Wooden sculpture of the fifth century, with saints, in the Cairo Museum.(After Koptische Kunst, PI. VII.) wooden gallery. Here again each valve has five panels, alternately low andhigh, with ornamental borders and filled by figure subjects. These are nowmuch mutilated, but it is possible…
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