[448] H. Brockhaus, Die Kunst in den Athos-Klöstern, p. 34; G. Millet, Le Monastère de Daphné.

[449] Gerlach, Tagebuch, p. 337.

[450] Paspates, p. 395.

[451] In Parker's Glossary of Architecture, p. 506, the term is defined 'quae vulgariter a volta dicitur' (Matt. Par. 1056). Du Cange defines the word 'caverna ubi viae conveniunt.'

[452] According to the Patriarch Constantius (Ancient and Modern Constantinople, p. 76), the monogram—

was to be seen in his day on the exterior western wall of the Chora.


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