The church of SMaria antiqua . Fig. 6.—Pavement in the Sanctuary. The front part of the Sanctuary, enclosed by the screen alreadydescribed (p. 63), was also repaved in the later style, and at a rather higherlevel, so that there was a step down into the inner part of the is to be noticed that the pavement is earlier than the screens whichhave been built on the top of it. On the right, near the cross screen, one 1 Cattaneo, Architetttira, Fig. 88. For pavements of the same style in the eleventh century•church of St. Luke of Stiris, see Schultz and Barnsley, op. cit., 36. 76 The Brit
The church of SMaria antiqua . Fig. 6.—Pavement in the Sanctuary. The front part of the Sanctuary, enclosed by the screen alreadydescribed (p. 63), was also repaved in the later style, and at a rather higherlevel, so that there was a step down into the inner part of the is to be noticed that the pavement is earlier than the screens whichhave been built on the top of it. On the right, near the cross screen, one 1 Cattaneo, Architetttira, Fig. 88. For pavements of the same style in the eleventh century•church of St. Luke of Stiris, see Schultz and Barnsley, op. cit., 36. 76 The British School at Rome. of the white marble bands still retains the outline of two feet, the well-known pagan symbol of a vow for a safe journey. Beside it is inscribedCOSMESES. In a neighbouring compartment a small porphyry disc issurrounded by a ring of white marble on which is engraved The lettering in both cases is of the second century. There can be little doubt that this raised platform indicates the posit
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