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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 409

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m Abbess Aetheria, who visited the HolyPlaces at the close of the fourth century, that there were mosaics in the atriumof Constantines Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and possibly even on the westfacade of the basilica.1 The Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem2 had richdecoration of early mosaics: on… … Fig. 225. The Transfiguration : mosaic in the monastery church of Mount Sinai.(Hautes Etudes: N. Kondakoff.) P. 383. Jerusalem once possessed a mosaic representing Constantine and Helena holdingthe Cross between them.3 We may suppose that almost all the sacred edificesof the Holy Land were adorned…

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