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A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)

Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 467

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nd and cross-aisle. The chair stands at the end of thepresbytery, occupying the middle of abroad screen of rich marbles and mosaic, ing a roof of stone slabs. The liistory ofthe church is very difiicult to unravel. Itis known to have been founded under Con-stantiue before 330, and was altered or… … and is flanked by benches for the clergy.In the nave below, on either side, aremarble ambones. that on the left side be-ing like the cathedra in style and beauty,in whicb no others in Rome equal them.An inscription on the back of the chair givestlie date. 12.54. Both the chair and tliesouth ambo…

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