8. A portion of the figure of an armed angel.
Above No. 8 and at the side of the window:
9. Two men carrying a bier or platform. In front of them a
third person giving directions.
10. In the arched recess: full-length figures of Andronicus
II. and his family. In the soffit of the arch, the head of
Christ in a medallion, with rays issuing from behind the
aureola.
11. and 12. In the spandrils above the recess: two heads in
medallions.
13. In the dome vault: the Last Judgment. Christ in judgment
fills the centre; behind Him are the twenty-four elders
seated on a long throne; farther back is gathered the
heavenly host.
[Illustration: PLATE XCII.
S. SAVIOUR IN THE CHORA. ARCHIVOLT ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE
PARECCLESION, WITH THE EPITAPH IN HONOUR OF TORNIKES.
_To face page 330._]
14. On the north-eastern pendentive: the Virgin and Child
in a Paradise, with trees on a white background.
15. On the south-eastern pendentive: the Mouth of Hell.
16. On the south pilaster of the dome: an armed angel.
17. Above that angel, on the arch: a man bearing the
Seven-Branched Candlestick, and beside him another man
bearing with both hands some object above his head, perhaps
the Table of Shew Bread.
18. On the northern pilaster: a warrior.
19. In the centre of the arch: the Head of Christ in a
medallion.
The Western Bay.
20. At the south-western corner where the wall is much
damaged, a saint.
21. Above No. 20, to the west of the window: Christ
appearing to His disciples.
22. To the east of the window, an indistinct scene, perhaps
the Entombment.
23. At the north-western corner: S. Samona.
24. A saint, not named.
25. Over the door two saints, one of whom holds a cross.
26. The northern archway: In the centre is the door to the
narrow passage between the parecclesion and the church. To
the left, Jacob's Ladder; to the right, Moses at the Burning
Bush. In the bush is a medallion of the Virgin and Child,
and from the bush an angel addresses Moses, who holds his
veil in his hand.
27, 28, 29, 30. In the pendentives of the dome: the Four
Evangelists sitting at desks.
31. The dome is divided into twelve segments by ribs, and is
pierced by twelve windows. Above each window is an angel
holding a spear, and below him is the legend 'Holy.' In the
crown are the Virgin and Child in a medallion.
32. A saint holding a small cross; below, in the south wall,
the archivolt with the epit
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