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Division II Section A Part 4
in Ill. 236), which is not that of an ordinary Christian basilica, but rather that of a
great hall, consists of an undivided nave and a very broad apse without side chambers.
The west end was originally an open arch, almost as wide as the nave, but now
completely walled up but for two narrow doorways (Ill. 237). At the west ends of
the side walls are half columns with Ionic capitals which, in scale and style, correspond
exactly to the capitals of the columns of the ordinary street colonnades; but these are
not the ordinary capitals of half columns in the street colonnades; for they are com-
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Ill. 236.
pounded with pilaster caps, one on the north side of the building and one on the
south. Viewed from the front or side, the pilaster caps show only a bowlster, and
the bowlster of the capital of each half column is set at right angles to the bowlster
of the pilaster caps on either side of it, so that the volutes of both meet at right
angles. This arrangement indicates that the half columns stood at the ends of rows
of columns extending toward the west, and I have shown two rows of conjectured
columns in the plan, 14.80m. apart on centres, extending westward from the Basilica;
it also suggests that the pilasters were responds to orders of Ionic columns extending
north and south. My first conjecture was that these had been continuous colonnades
running to the right and left of the facade; until I observed that the walls projecting
from the east end of the Basilica also terminate in pilasters, the caps of which are
Division II Section A Part 4
in Ill. 236), which is not that of an ordinary Christian basilica, but rather that of a
great hall, consists of an undivided nave and a very broad apse without side chambers.
The west end was originally an open arch, almost as wide as the nave, but now
completely walled up but for two narrow doorways (Ill. 237). At the west ends of
the side walls are half columns with Ionic capitals which, in scale and style, correspond
exactly to the capitals of the columns of the ordinary street colonnades; but these are
not the ordinary capitals of half columns in the street colonnades; for they are com-
.20780
c
BOSPA-
BASILICA
AND
BV1LEING5
AT
NORTH·
o
Ill. 236.
pounded with pilaster caps, one on the north side of the building and one on the
south. Viewed from the front or side, the pilaster caps show only a bowlster, and
the bowlster of the capital of each half column is set at right angles to the bowlster
of the pilaster caps on either side of it, so that the volutes of both meet at right
angles. This arrangement indicates that the half columns stood at the ends of rows
of columns extending toward the west, and I have shown two rows of conjectured
columns in the plan, 14.80m. apart on centres, extending westward from the Basilica;
it also suggests that the pilasters were responds to orders of Ionic columns extending
north and south. My first conjecture was that these had been continuous colonnades
running to the right and left of the facade; until I observed that the walls projecting
from the east end of the Basilica also terminate in pilasters, the caps of which are