. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . and art. But, even before the excavations, we possessed,in the upper church of Paschal II., an exquisite and impressiveexample of the interior arrangement of early Roman Paschals time basilicas were still decorated in the ancientmanner. In this edifice, moreover, the Pope seems in many 1 J. Mullooly, , Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr, and his Basilica in Rome, 2ndedition, Rome, 1873 (with Plates). De Rossi, Bullett. archeol crist., 1863, p. 25 ff.(Map, p. 30). Ibid., 1870, p. 129 ff.: / monumenti scoperti sotto la basilica di
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . and art. But, even before the excavations, we possessed,in the upper church of Paschal II., an exquisite and impressiveexample of the interior arrangement of early Roman Paschals time basilicas were still decorated in the ancientmanner. In this edifice, moreover, the Pope seems in many 1 J. Mullooly, , Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr, and his Basilica in Rome, 2ndedition, Rome, 1873 (with Plates). De Rossi, Bullett. archeol crist., 1863, p. 25 ff.(Map, p. 30). Ibid., 1870, p. 129 ff.: / monumenti scoperti sotto la basilica di S. Clemcntc,studiati nella loro successione stratigrafica e cronologica. Cp. Kraus, Reale?icyklopadieder christl. Alterthiimer, 1, 132; ibid., DE Waal, i, l 7. Cp. Roller, Revue archeol,2 (1872), 65-73, 129-141, 290-296. Armellini, Chi se di Roma2, p. 124. KiRSCH,Kultusgebaude, p. 32 ff. MARUCCHI, Basiliques, p. 287 ff. 2 De Rossi, Bull. arch, crist., 1870, 125-153. View and ground-plan, PI. 10 and n;also Roller, in Revue, &c, PI. 14, 16, No. 153] CHRISTIAN ORATORIES 215 points to have imitated the earlier church of St. Clement. Hisbasilica, of which the ground-plan is given in our illustration(111. 46), is the only one in Rome which has been able to pre-serve its interior arrangement with tolerable completeness downto the present time. There is a quadrangle (A), surrounded by a portico, witha central fountain (cantharus), forming a passage to an atriumset transversely (B). The columns are probably those of themore ancient quadrangle, erected upon the new and higherlevel. We still see, on either side of the main entrance (B),leading to the central nave (C), the two sideentrances—now walled up—leading to the twoaisles (D, E). The circular open tribune, orapse, still stands at the end of the interior, ■flanked by the two smaller apses (O and P) ofthe aisles. There is also the choir fronting thealtar (L), with its pillared canopy ; the chancel(G), surrounded by a squar
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