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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 325

An illustration from Monuments of the early church, 1901, leaf 325 — Fig. 121. — Section of mosaic pave-ment in the cathedral of Parenzo.Sixth centurv. 296 PKTOllIAL ART I he work adorns the wall spare just above the colonnade. K,was more commonly employed for the lower walls of the aislesand of the apse. We may mention in this connection mosaic inscriptions,… … dedicatory inscription — a metrical titulus — of S. Sabina. Itis especially interesting on account of the two female figures,under which one reads, ECLESIA EX CIPCVMCISIONE,and ECLESIA EX GENTIBUS. Over these personifications asssfflftn^twitK-.^rrintraattT;::^^

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