[274]. The basilica Pudenziana at Rome has similar arcades externally.
[275]. The twenty-four marble columns are said to have been brought over from Constantinople, but they were probably obtained from Greek quarries.
[276]. [The narthex as shown in Woodcut No. [409] is of much later date than the church, and has been partially rebuilt on two or three occasions. It is now (1892) being taken down, and the removal of the central portion has uncovered the triple window which originally lighted the nave.—Ed.]
[277]. “La basilica di San Marco in Venezia,” by Cattaneo, continued by Boito. Venezia, 1890.
[278]. Probably owing to its having been utilized to receive the relics of St. Mark, which were temporarily hidden there.
[279]. This church, built by Justinian, no longer exists, having been pulled down in 1464 by Mohammed II. to make way for his mosque. From the description of it, however, given by Procopius, the plan was similar to that adopted in St. Mark, being that of a Greek Cross with central and four other domes. Procopius speaks of the church being surrounded within by columns placed both above and below, probably referring to galleries similar to those in St. Sophia of Constantinople. In St. Mark’s the columns exist in one storey only, and the main wall is carried up at the back of the aisles to give increased size inside.
[280]. Originally, according to M. Cattaneo, his was the vestibule to the atrium from the south, but it is now blocked up by an altar.
[281]. [They are shown in the mosaic of the doorway of St. Alipe, executed at the end of the 13th century, as also the filling in of the great west window.—Ed.]
[282]. ‘Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria,’ by T. G. Jackson, M.A. Oxford, 1887.
[283]. In support of this statement he points out that twice during Christian times it had been found necessary to raise the floor of the church. The nave floor, which in 1857 was two steps below that of the aisles, was raised in 1881 to the same level; but two feet nine inches below the nave floor before it was raised there existed, according to Prof. Eitelberger, another mosaic pavement, which must have been the floor of the first basilica erected, and which was pulled down by Bishop Euphrasius in 543. This lower pavement extended also under the three chapels of the confessio, which suggests that these are part of the first basilica.