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Bk. IX. Ch. II. BASILICAS. 419 to the cave. The frescoes were added apparently in the 11th or 12th century.^ One of the principal points of interest connected with this church is, that it enables us to realize the description Eusebius gives us of the basilica which Constantine erected at Jerusalem in honor of the Resurrection. Like this church it was five-aisled, but had galleries. 843. Interior of the Golden Gateway. (From a drawing by Catherwood. Originally pub- lished in Fisher's " Oriental Album.") and, owing to the irregularity of the ground, the south gallery was on a level with the ground outside, as was the case M'ith the churches of San Lorenzo and Sta. Agnese at Rome. The apse also was on a larger scale than could well have been possible in the Bethlehem church, and adorned with twelve ]iinars, symbolical of tlio A])OStles. 1 De Vogiie, " Iilglises de la Terre Sainte,"' p. 101.