. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . by a small slab with epitaph, and sometimes aneffigy or the representation of absolution before of these are such slabs. Here is also an earlyChristian fragment with strigils, the monogram ofChrist, and a laurel crown in relief, and three interest-ing sarcophagi ascribed to the sixth century by M. leBlant. Also two effigies of Bishops signed by thesculptor Raymundus de Biaya. One of them is ofGuillaume Jorda (f 1186). His head rests on a hands are crossed on his chest, he is f
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . by a small slab with epitaph, and sometimes aneffigy or the representation of absolution before of these are such slabs. Here is also an earlyChristian fragment with strigils, the monogram ofChrist, and a laurel crown in relief, and three interest-ing sarcophagi ascribed to the sixth century by M. leBlant. Also two effigies of Bishops signed by thesculptor Raymundus de Biaya. One of them is ofGuillaume Jorda (f 1186). His head rests on a hands are crossed on his chest, he is fully vested, 302 ELNE with a mitre opening forwards. On his right hand ishis crozier ; the arms of a Httle censing angel cross inscription is in six upright hnes, all terminatingin the syllable is/ carved once, with converging linesfrom the ends of the lines of letters. Upon the cushiona pattern is carved ; the vestments have ornamentedborders. The second Bishops tomb-slab is marked bythe same treatment of the draperies in many narrowfolds. By his head are two censing angels; their. SIXTH-CENTURY SARCOPHAGUS, CLOISTER, ELNE. censers appear on the upper part of his arms, whichare crossed. The signature runs : R. f. hec operade Biaa. A third tombstone, very similar, wasbrought from a monastery near by the French Archaeo-logical Society. It represents F. du Soler (f Decem-ber 17, 1203), and is signed by the same faces in all these, if not portraits, at least resemblea type common in Aragon. At Arles-sur-Tech is aneffigy of much the same character, which will be LE BOULOU 303 described ; and the statues in the doorway of S. Jeanle Vieux, at Perpignan, are treated in the same is a curious fact that, though the Bishops seat is atPerpignan, he is still known as Bishop of Elne. The Valley of the Tech. From Elne a line runs up the Valley of the Tech,which is bounded on the south by the Monts the right one sees the imposing mass of the Canigou,whi
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