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Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)

Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London : J. and A. Arch · leaf 155

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about14 feet wide. The walls were once covered with marbles; these have.disappeared, but all the vaulting is still covered with figures and ara-besques in mosaic. On each side of the nave a plain marble sarcopha-gus is incrusted in the Avail; and there is a larger one, adorned withsculpture, at… … o o TOMB OF THEODORIO. 131 with metal. There is said to have been a small window at the back ofthis chest, through which, in 1577, some children put a lighted candle,and the clothes and body of the empress were thereby consumed; onwhich account it was shut up; but I could discern no trace of…

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