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but would have been inapplicable on a large scale.And indeed the cupola does not play a very large partin Syrian churches, which never quite abandoned thebasilican plan. There are many interesting peculiaritiesabout these Syrian buildings, which show that a freshdeparture was being made in… … TIIK DOMK I\ CONSTRUCTION CH. Ill] SYRIAN ARCHITECTURE 41 and piers are used abundantly, but they are all workingmembers of the construction. Here and there, as atQualb-Louzet, colonnettes are used for exterior decora-tion \ but they are exceptional, and on a miniature scalelike those over the…
