. Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 4. The entrance doorway of the great hall that has beenjust described is square, with a complete entablature for I CH. Ill] SPALATO 3 its head and a round arch above, the lunette between thetwo being left open as a window. Additional height isgiven to this arch by making it a horseshoe instead ofstilting it in the western way. It is remarkable that some of these features of Syrian Syria andarchitecture occur in Diocletians palace at Spalato. There ^p^^^^°too in the peristyle of the larger temple we have slabs of. % PORTA{ PERINEA{.SPALATO Fig. S-
. Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 4. The entrance doorway of the great hall that has beenjust described is square, with a complete entablature for I CH. Ill] SPALATO 3 its head and a round arch above, the lunette between thetwo being left open as a window. Additional height isgiven to this arch by making it a horseshoe instead ofstilting it in the western way. It is remarkable that some of these features of Syrian Syria andarchitecture occur in Diocletians palace at Spalato. There ^p^^^^°too in the peristyle of the larger temple we have slabs of. % PORTA{ PERINEA{.SPALATO Fig. S- stone laid across from the entablature of the colonnadeto the central cella. There also in the two remaininggateways, the Porta Aurea, and the Porta Ferrea, thesquare opening has a straight lintel surmounted by anopen lunette within a round arch (Fig. 5). There alsoover the smaller temple is a semicircular vault, roof andceiling in one, formed of huge slabs between the two endwalls. At Spalato also, both in the crypto porticus and z^ SYRIAN ARCHITECTURE [CH. Ill Greekworkmenat Spalato Influenceof materialon Syrianstyle The dome in the vestibule, the entablature rises into an arch fromcolumn to column as it does at Baalbec. From theseinstances of resemblance it has been conjectured that thepalace of Spalato was built by Syro-Greeks, probablyfrom Antioch\ That it was built by Greeks, may beassumed with tolerable certainty, but it is not necessaryto suppose they came from Syria. Roofing with slabswas not confined to the East, though the scarcity oftimber
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