Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 104
Syrie Centrale. HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. external octagon is built the choir (flanked by twosquare sacristies); which terminates in an apse, and ineach of the angles of the square is a niche; there arethree doors at the west, and one on the north andsouth sides of the square. The diameter of… … Church of St. George, Ezra, Syria, two rows of this drum are made of slabs, whichtransform the octagonal drum first into a figure ofsixteen sides, and then of thirty-two sides, and sothe octagon passes gradually into the circle, whichserves as the base of the cupola. The cupola DeVogue believes to…
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