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... slabs pierced with numerous apertures , which may or may not have been fitted with glass ( vide Archæologia , vol . xl . " On the Churches of Rome earlier than the year 1150 , ” p . 195 ) . In the Bassian basilica , where the walls were ...
... slabs pierced with numerous apertures , which may or may not have been fitted with glass ( vide Archæologia , vol . xl . " On the Churches of Rome earlier than the year 1150 , ” p . 195 ) . In the Bassian basilica , where the walls were ...
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... slabs of marble of various colours , arranged in patterns , and I have no doubt that the whole interior was , as in the Bassian basilica , covered with decoration of the same sort . Seeing , then , that these two buildings exhibit so ...
... slabs of marble of various colours , arranged in patterns , and I have no doubt that the whole interior was , as in the Bassian basilica , covered with decoration of the same sort . Seeing , then , that these two buildings exhibit so ...
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... slabs , it was at first thought that the tomb had been entered in recent times , but it soon became evident that , although the effigies and their adjuncts had all been displaced , first through the dislocation gradually caused by the ...
... slabs , it was at first thought that the tomb had been entered in recent times , but it soon became evident that , although the effigies and their adjuncts had all been displaced , first through the dislocation gradually caused by the ...
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... slab . It is evident that this belonged to the time when the slab was finally laid down in the reign of Henry V. , and this fact , with the other indications just mentioned , is decisive that what is somewhat obscurely called by Mr ...
... slab . It is evident that this belonged to the time when the slab was finally laid down in the reign of Henry V. , and this fact , with the other indications just mentioned , is decisive that what is somewhat obscurely called by Mr ...
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... slab , caused by the first endeavour to discover what was beneath , the whole surface was nearly intact . The colour of the silken fibre was far gone , but some portions of it retained a crimson hue . The wood of the lid , which is oak ...
... slab , caused by the first endeavour to discover what was beneath , the whole surface was nearly intact . The colour of the silken fibre was far gone , but some portions of it retained a crimson hue . The wood of the lid , which is oak ...
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