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II. B. 2.
arches on the line of the nave arcades. Three portals opened from the church into
the narthex, but there seems to have been only one outside portal in the narthex; this
was directly in the middle, and was provided with a huge inscribed lintel. 1 On the
north side of the narthex is a small room with a large open arch toward the west•
adjoining this room on the east, and opening upon the small square compartment at
the end of the north aisle of the church, is a square stair-tower. The newel-pier is
ScALT-O.OO^ IM
Chvrch-
OF THE
Archangel-
IL-AnDERIN’
Ill. 51.
of circular form, i m. in diameter, although the tower itself is square. At the other
end of the church, east of the prothesis, and connected with the prothesis by a door-
way, is a small chamber of irregular shape built up against one side of the apse.
This chamber opens southward by an arch upon another chamber which was one of
a series on the east side of the court-yard, or cloister, of the church. Next to this
second chamber was a broad double-arched passage opening between the cloister and
the town. This church was architecturally joined to its neighbor by an arcade of piers
and arches that formed the porch of the northern church and was joined to the small
chamber at the end of the narthex of the southern church. All of these details ot
ground plan were derived from low walls projecting unbroken from grass-grown mounds
of clay. Like the two chapels described above, these twin churches were built in large
part of sun-baked brick.
Church No. 6.. 528 a. d. The South Church is one of the small number of buildings
at il-Anderin that was built entirely of stone except for its roof which was, of course,
of wood. It is the best preserved of the buildings of ancient Androna. Not only was
the church itself of stone; but it had about it an enclosing wall of stone, with interior
buttresses, angle towers, and towers of entrance in each of its four sides, which gave
it the appearance of a fortified church beside the city walls. But I conjecture that
1 Div. Ill, insc. 920.
II. B. 2.
arches on the line of the nave arcades. Three portals opened from the church into
the narthex, but there seems to have been only one outside portal in the narthex; this
was directly in the middle, and was provided with a huge inscribed lintel. 1 On the
north side of the narthex is a small room with a large open arch toward the west•
adjoining this room on the east, and opening upon the small square compartment at
the end of the north aisle of the church, is a square stair-tower. The newel-pier is
ScALT-O.OO^ IM
Chvrch-
OF THE
Archangel-
IL-AnDERIN’
Ill. 51.
of circular form, i m. in diameter, although the tower itself is square. At the other
end of the church, east of the prothesis, and connected with the prothesis by a door-
way, is a small chamber of irregular shape built up against one side of the apse.
This chamber opens southward by an arch upon another chamber which was one of
a series on the east side of the court-yard, or cloister, of the church. Next to this
second chamber was a broad double-arched passage opening between the cloister and
the town. This church was architecturally joined to its neighbor by an arcade of piers
and arches that formed the porch of the northern church and was joined to the small
chamber at the end of the narthex of the southern church. All of these details ot
ground plan were derived from low walls projecting unbroken from grass-grown mounds
of clay. Like the two chapels described above, these twin churches were built in large
part of sun-baked brick.
Church No. 6.. 528 a. d. The South Church is one of the small number of buildings
at il-Anderin that was built entirely of stone except for its roof which was, of course,
of wood. It is the best preserved of the buildings of ancient Androna. Not only was
the church itself of stone; but it had about it an enclosing wall of stone, with interior
buttresses, angle towers, and towers of entrance in each of its four sides, which gave
it the appearance of a fortified church beside the city walls. But I conjecture that
1 Div. Ill, insc. 920.