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422 422 BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. Part II. ■/•■' to be tolerably well ascertained as a.d. 463, and from this circum- stance, as well as its being in the metropolis, it sliows less deviation from the classical type than the ^p provincial examples thus quoted. The lower range of columns sup- porting the gallery still retain the classical outline and support a horizontal entablature (Wood- cut No. 848) ; the upper su])- porting arches have very little resemblance to the classical ty2^e, and are wanting in the architrave block, which, in fact, never seems to have been admired in the capital. i-MMii jimnH 'T JV,'";i^/?Y?!S'y/¥ /l ^^'^"k ■-^£ =^ S ^ieo^i:^ w ^ki^ m^ iy ^flJiiu: ,a6:jja>^tesJ§ 4 a ) Syria and Asia Minor. The country where — so far at least as we at present know — the Byzantine basilica was prin- cipally developed was Northern Syria. Already in De Vogiie's work, even in its incomplete state, some dozen churches are indi- cated havinoj the aisles divided from the naves by pillars sup- porting arches. One of these only — that at Soueideh — has five aisles, all the rest three. Almost all have plain semi-circular apses, sometimes only seen internally, like B48. Pillar in Church of St. John, Constantinople. 849. Plan of Church in Baqu Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. 850. Section of Church at Baquoza. (From De Vogiie.) Scale 50 ft. to 1 in. those mentioned in the first volume (page 405), but sometimes also projecting, as was afterwards universally the fashion. Two at lenst