Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . s, a very common plan in churchesof this style and date, and as being paved with anancient mosaic of red black and white tesserae,which must have resembled that still existing atGrade \ All this has now disappeared ; the seaused to invade the church, the nave floor wasraised in 1881 to the level of that of the aisles, andthe pavements were buried, only a few miserablefragments having been taken up, which are storedfor the present in one of the chapels. But it is stillmore surprising to learn that at the de
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . s, a very common plan in churchesof this style and date, and as being paved with anancient mosaic of red black and white tesserae,which must have resembled that still existing atGrade \ All this has now disappeared ; the seaused to invade the church, the nave floor wasraised in 1881 to the level of that of the aisles, andthe pavements were buried, only a few miserablefragments having been taken up, which are storedfor the present in one of the chapels. But it is stillmore surprising to learn that at the depth of twofeet nine inches below what was the level of thenave when Eitelberger saw it exists another mosaicpavement, of which a sample has been dug up andis for the present stored away with those first named. ^ He gives the following inscriptions from this mosaic pavement. CLAVDIA EELIGIOSA FEMINA CVM SVA NEPTAHONOEIA PKO VOTO SVO RELIGIOSA FEMINA CVM SVA. See below, ch. xxxvi, account and illustrations of the pavementsand inscriptiojis at Grado. Parenzo Plate Ch. XXXI.] Parenzo: the Duoino. 329 This lower pavement extends also under the threechapels of the confessio/ and part of it may be seenby raising a trap-door. It is of more geometricaldesign and somewhat coarser execution than theupper pavements, and looks like late Roman this should ever have been the pavement ofEuphrasius basilica seems impossible, for the basesof his columns stand well above the upper floorlevel, and it is more probably the pavement of thepreceding church which he pulled down. Thenatural inference is that even in the time ofEuphrasius the subsidence of the soil occasioneddifficulties, and that advantage was taken of therebuilding to raise the level of the floor. The oldpavements were therefore buried, and the newmosaic pavements of which we see the remains werelaid two feet nine inches above them. Finally thissecond pavement has in its turn been buried by theraising
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