Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ZRA ^ I0_ feet?y j2 £ ^ Fig. 6. EZRA froTn DeVigiie. J. A. 3e -1° -^^ Fig. 7- 34 SYRIAN ARCHITECTURE [ch. iii cases became square, with a projecting apse for thesanctuary. The angles of the square were filled inter-nally with exedrae or semicircular niches which broughtit into an octagon. Within that was a smaller octagonof eight piers on which the cupola rested, surrounded byan aisle between the inner and outer octagons. A veryChurch perfect example of this is the church at Ezra (Figs. 6, 7),of which M. de Vogu^ gives a plan and sections\ Thesurrounding
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ZRA ^ I0_ feet?y j2 £ ^ Fig. 6. EZRA froTn DeVigiie. J. A. 3e -1° -^^ Fig. 7- 34 SYRIAN ARCHITECTURE [ch. iii cases became square, with a projecting apse for thesanctuary. The angles of the square were filled inter-nally with exedrae or semicircular niches which broughtit into an octagon. Within that was a smaller octagonof eight piers on which the cupola rested, surrounded byan aisle between the inner and outer octagons. A veryChurch perfect example of this is the church at Ezra (Figs. 6, 7),of which M. de Vogu^ gives a plan and sections\ Thesurrounding aisle is covered by slabs, and the prolonga-tion forming the sanctuary and ending with an apse hasthe cross arches and slab covering of the palace atChaqqa. This most interesting church, which is stillperfect and in use, is dated by an inscription ovoid form of the dome is remarkable, and wasprobably adopted as easier to construct without centering,which, on account of the scarcity of wood, had to bedispensed with as much as possible. The whole is constructed of wrought st
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