. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. Fig. 129. parts forming the elbows of the throne are incom-plete, the top edge being cut through the middle of 428 Grado: the Duomo. [Ch. XXXVI. a pattern. The raking part on the south sideseems original, but that on the north is made up ofpart of a sunk and dished stone with a kind ofmouth or outlet, which it is suggested may havebelonged to a bath. The flat ceiling of the testeris made of a whole stone dished in the same way,round which the carved cornice is fixed with arebate. Its cresting of curled cr
. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. Fig. 129. parts forming the elbows of the throne are incom-plete, the top edge being cut through the middle of 428 Grado: the Duomo. [Ch. XXXVI. a pattern. The raking part on the south sideseems original, but that on the north is made up ofpart of a sunk and dished stone with a kind ofmouth or outlet, which it is suggested may havebelonged to a bath. The flat ceiling of the testeris made of a whole stone dished in the same way,round which the carved cornice is fixed with arebate. Its cresting of curled crocket-like leaves isprobably original, and resembles some work at San. Fig. 130. Donato in Zara (see vol. i. p. 253, Fig. 2), whichdisposes one to fix the date of the reconstructionof this throne in the ninth century. The twocolumns correspond closely with those of the pulpitwhich we shall next describe, and they are probablyoriginal, though even they have evidently been dis-turbed and are not in their proper place. Thecresting of the southern ramp (Fig. 130) has crispcurling leaves like the canopy, but that of the Ch. xxxVL] Grado: the Dtwino. 429 northern ramp (Fig. 129) is cut out of a door orwindow head with a small segment of a semicirculararch and parts of the spandrils right and left of it. The pulpit (Fig. 131) consists of two parts belong-ing to widely different periods. The lower part,consisting of the pulpit itself and the six columnsthat carry it, is of white marble and of Byzantineor Romanesque work. Two of the columns arespirally fluted and the rest are plain ; their capitalsresemble those of the throne. The pulpit above,raised nearly seven
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