ither side of the figure of Christ, are
emblems of His character as the Giver of Life.

In the north-western corner.--The sacrifice of a white bullock.

In the south-eastern corner.--The second miracle of the loaves.

13. On the third transverse arch.--Two saints, not named.

_The Fourth Bay_

14. In the eastern lunette.--To the left, the magi, on
horseback, guided by a star, on their way to Jerusalem; to
the right, the magi before Herod.

On the arch above.--The busts (in medallions) of SS. Abibus,
Ghourias, Samonas.

15. In the western lunette.--Elizabeth fleeing with her
child John from a soldier who pursues her with a drawn sword
in his hand.

The scenes in the vault have disappeared.

16. On the fourth transverse arch.--Two saints, not named.

_The Fifth Bay_

17. In the eastern lunette.--Herod inquiring of the priests
where the Christ should be born.

The busts of three saints on the arch above have disappeared.

18. In the western lunette.--Mothers at Bethlehem seated on
the ground, and mourning the death of their infant children.

The mosaics in other parts of this bay have disappeared.

_The Outer Bay fronting the parecclesion_

In the eastern pendentive.--To the left (19) the healing of
a paralytic; to the right (20) the healing of the man sick
of the dropsy.

21. In the western pendentive.--To the left, the healing of
another paralytic; to the right, Christ with the Samaritan
woman at the well of Sychar; in the lunette, the massacre
of the Innocents at Bethlehem.

22. In the southern lunette.--To the left, Herod orders the
massacre of the Innocents at Bethlehem; to the right, the
massacre of the Innocents.

The other mosaics in this bay have disappeared.

_The Inner Bay fronting the parecclesion_

23. In the vault.--In the south-western corner. Uncertain.
Possibly, the fall of the idols in Egypt at the presence of
the Holy Child; to the south of that scene, Zacchaeus on the
sycamore tree.

INNER NARTHEX

_First Bay (at the south end of the narthex)_

24. On the soffit of the first transverse arch.--To the
east, the healing of the man with a withered arm; to the
west, the healing of a leper.

_South Dome_

25. In the crown.--Christ the Pantokrator.

In the flutings, thirty-nine figures, arranged in two tiers,
representing the ancestors of Christ from Adam to Esrom,
Japhet, and the eleven sons of Jacob not in the line of
ancestry.

26. On the south-e