Half  a  century  before,  Constantine  had

established  there  a  bishop  with  his  pres-

byters and   deacons;   the   names  of  two

other  bishops,  from  the  fifth  century,  are

preserved.    Maundrell  saw  one  still  legible,

on  an  inscription,  in  his  day.  x  °    According

to  the  Germans  who  have  explored  the

site,  J  x  the  church  had  three  apses  at  the

further  end,  which  were  all  pierced  with

doorways  at  a  later  time  when  the  orienta-

tion of  the  church  was  reversed  and  a  new

apse  erected  at   the  east.     It   was  built

between  the  pools,  around  and  about  the

great  altar  of  the  temple  court,  somewhat  as

Gelmirez's  at  Santiago  was  built  over  the

The

tomb.    The  entrance  to  the  temple  was

Temple  of
the  Sun

by  a  high  and  noble  stair,  the  same  down

which   Mar  Rabbula  was  thrown  about

400  A.D.  1  2  A  wide  colonnaded  propylaeum

between  two  towers  made  the  background

for  this,  and  opened  into  the  hexagonal

court,  arcaded  round,  with  an  open  cloister

like  that  of  Eunate.     Here  should  have

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stood  the  cypress  tree  which  is  to  be  seen  as
plain  and  unmistakable  on  certain  coins,
standing  in  the  central  intercolumniation
of  the  propylaeum  as,  on  others,  is  a  wheat
ear.
The  court  to  which  this  in  turn  admitted
was  square,  surrounded  with  colonnades,
except  on  the  side  of  the  temple. J  3  In  the
porticoes  were  exedrae,  two  on  each  side,
that  contained  themselves  five  niches  or
absidioles.  To  this  Syrian  arrangement,
which  reappeared  in  the  south-west  of
France,  at  Souillac  and  Perigeux,  reference
was  made  in  the  discusssion  of  S.  Pedro  la
Rua  of  Estella.  Two  pools  flanked  at
first  the  central  altar  and  afterwards  the
church  which  enclosed  this;  a  vaulted
crypt  or  substructure  existed  below.
