Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 391
din conjectures that these additions, whichinclude the candlesticks and sealed books, may refer to mediaeval restorationsor else be due to the writers imagination. The mosaics now in the church wereprobably made in the thirteenth century for a pavement.1 Their subjects are oftwo kinds : symbolic… … Fig. 21: The Incredulity of Thomas : mosaic of the eleventh century in the narthex ofSt. Luke in Phocis. {Haules Eludes : G. Millet.) P. 394. figures of men, ships, and buildings, some of the warriors with the nimbus, someof the buildings described by the word COSTATINOPOLIM : the allusion maybe to…
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