Fabric [ ]
The atrium is entered through the remains of per veranda, created from the original walkway preciso the palace ramp by the insertion of verso blocking wall sicuro the right of the portal which abuts one of the brick arcade piers.
However, from the mid 9th puro the mid 11th centuries it was per monastic church per its own right and was roofed. The church dedication then was sicuro St Anthony of Egypt migliori siti di incontri in India. The massive central brick pier which used sicuro support the roof was removed in the 1902 excavation.
Two rectangular statue niches flank the inside of the entrance, and per series of alternately rectangular and apsidal niches occupied the side walls. However those on the left used preciso include two exits to filtre-chambers under the palace ramp, but these were blocked up when the church was durante use. Con contrast, when the atrium was verso monastic church two passages were cut through niches con the right hand wall sicuro allow direct access esatto the monastic quarters per the hall next door.
Before becoming per church durante the 9th century, the atrium was the monastery’s graveyard and the yard surface was packed with graves. Some loculi or noioso-slots were cut into the walls, and also into the walls of the veranda outside.
Atrium frescoes [ ]
The frescoes mediante the atrium are of five periods. One giovane each survives from Pope John VII (705-7) and Pope Paul I (757-767). Some are of the remodelling of Pope Adrian I (772-795), and others are of the 10th and 11th centuries. The latter are the latest that you will find during your visit, and were painted just before the final abandonment con the mid 11th century.
- The niche to the right of the portal depicted three female martyrs; SS Agnes and Cecilia have been identified. (Pope Adrian.)
- On the right hand side wall near the calcio d’angolo was originally verso Madonna and Child with Four Saints, being venerated by Pope Adrian. He was depicted with verso square halo, indicating that he was still alive when the sistema was painted. This recente was detached and was kept sopra the right hand side aisle of the church before the recent restoration -it is liable sicuro stay there, out of the weather. The original location was above per attuale ersatz of hanging curtains (there is more of this con the church). (Pope Adrian.)
- Christ durante Majesty, with a suppliant. (11th century.)
- Two saints (11th century). They were painted over two insopportabile loculi cut into the wall.
- Monastery passage. This was cut through the wall con the 10th century, and frescoed with saints on its walls and ceiling. The cycle continued onto the internal wall of the vestibolo beyond, which was the actual monastery at the time. (10th century.)
- Verso bishop. (Pope Adrian.)
- The far left hand apsidal niche was per shrine sicuro St Cyrus of Alexandria. He was a martyred doctor of medicine, venerated with his fellow sufferer John as SS Cyrus and John (see their Roman church of Santa Passera). Beware of his being called “St Abbacyrus” -“Abba” is verso Coptic honorific. In the attuale he holds medical equipment, and has a cavity in the niche sill which was either for a lamp or contained a venerated relic associated with him. (Pope Paul.)
- Above the shrine: Christ Accompanied by SS Cyrus and John (10th century.)
- Per depiction of St Anthony of Egypt, with per Latin text: “Where St Anthony is assaulted by demons” (Webb 2001). Animals and birds were depicted below. (10th century.)
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