Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 191
f carvedslabs, both purely Byzantine and Italo-Byzantine, enclose the galleries inS. Marco at Venice (cf. Fig. 96), which is a veritable storehouse for reliefs ofthis kind.3 It is thought that some of them may have originally served as thefronts of sarcophagi.4 It has been observed that these slabs… … Fig. 96. Closure-slabs in the gallery, S. Marco, Venice, eleventh century. (Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) fitted together as sides of sarcophagi, placed upon walls as a revetment or roundfountains (phialae); again, they served to decorate the surfaces of ambos orpulpits. In the latter case they were…
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