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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 140

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inus substitutedone with columns.1 They sometimes appear interchangeablywith the columns of the nave (Fig. 38), evidently to insuregreater stability; in some cases at least they are the result ofrebuilding. In the case of a transept, pillars were always usedto support the arch which divided it from… … Fig. 31. — Church iu Babuda, Syria. 1 Poem 28 : v. 200: nam steterant vasto deformibus agmine })ilis. 115 MU-llITKtTUUK architrave (or archivolt) varied Erom about ,„ to ^ of the totalheight of the clearstory wall. A peculiarity of the East was the construction of galleriesover the side aisles and…

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