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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 407

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featureof the decoration of the temples. The LiberPontificalis clearly enough indicates both thelavishness of their employment, and the man-ner of their use, in the Roman basilicas during the eighth andninth centuries. Though the employment of hangings seems tohave had a considerable development… … Fig. 177. — Part ofa clavus in silkembroiderj% fromAchmim. Sev-enth centurv. CURTAINS AND ALTAR CLOTHS 379 not of a metropolitan basilica, but of a country church. Theuse of hangings must, in fact, have been fairly well fixed asearly as the fourth century; it corresponded to the requirementsof the…

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