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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 327

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vided into twelve com-partments by as many caryatids, which, by a graceful transi-tion, terminated in a cluster of acanthus stems, supporting inturn smaller caryatids, which framed more compartments, andfinally interlaced at the center of the dome. The subjectswhich were depicted in these… … Fig. 125. — Mosaic decoration of two sections of the ring- MOS. 11< S— Constat/1/m,i,i li ri<><l ■>•>:> ^^^^^s^sosssv^^ Susanna, the judgment of Daniel, the sacrifice of Cain andAUl, Moses striking the rock, Elijah and the priests of Baal,and i he sacrifice of Abraham. So far,…

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