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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE.
Book X
Side Blevation of Cathedral at Ani. Enlarged scale.
ment on tlie exterior. It is indeed so timid a form of constraction
tliat one might feel inclined to snspect that there is some mistake in
the date nsnally assigned to this church.
At Sandjerli, not far from Ani, is found
another church, which, from inscriptions
translated by M. Brosset, and from sections
given by him, appears to belong to the same
date (1033-1044), and to possess coupled
columns and pointed arches like those of the
cathedral of Ani, whioh indeed it resembles
8,5. Se'ction of Dcme at Dighcur. in man7 P°ints> and whict renders the date
above given highly probable.
The largest and perhaps the finest example of the Armenian style
is the now ruined church of Kouthais in Mingrelia, founded 1007. It
has neither coupled piers nor pointed arches, but externally is orna-
mented with the same reed-like pilasters and elaborate frets, which
leave no doubt of its being very nearly of the same age as that at Ani.
In the works of Dubois and Brosset, tlie plans of some twenty or
thirty churches are given besides those quoted above. They are all
small, and so various in their arrangements as to defy classification, at
least in tlie present state of our knowledge. The typical form may bc
BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE.
Book X
Side Blevation of Cathedral at Ani. Enlarged scale.
ment on tlie exterior. It is indeed so timid a form of constraction
tliat one might feel inclined to snspect that there is some mistake in
the date nsnally assigned to this church.
At Sandjerli, not far from Ani, is found
another church, which, from inscriptions
translated by M. Brosset, and from sections
given by him, appears to belong to the same
date (1033-1044), and to possess coupled
columns and pointed arches like those of the
cathedral of Ani, whioh indeed it resembles
8,5. Se'ction of Dcme at Dighcur. in man7 P°ints> and whict renders the date
above given highly probable.
The largest and perhaps the finest example of the Armenian style
is the now ruined church of Kouthais in Mingrelia, founded 1007. It
has neither coupled piers nor pointed arches, but externally is orna-
mented with the same reed-like pilasters and elaborate frets, which
leave no doubt of its being very nearly of the same age as that at Ani.
In the works of Dubois and Brosset, tlie plans of some twenty or
thirty churches are given besides those quoted above. They are all
small, and so various in their arrangements as to defy classification, at
least in tlie present state of our knowledge. The typical form may bc