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CH. xx] FRANCE PROVENCE 69but perhaps a trifle older 1 connected ,by a series of s. Gfflescolumns carryinga similar frieze. The arches are roundwithout the suspicion of a point like that at Aries, and thereis no pediment above. The facade of the church aboveit was not completed, and there issomething wrong withthe portal itself. The central arch like that at S. Trophimesprings from a frieze of figures,which starts to runright and left over the colonnade, but stops abruptly beforereaching the third column at the jamb of the side door.Had itgone farther it would have covered the mouldingsof the side arch which springs at the lower bed of thefrieze. There are also other signs of disturbance.A curious projection of two columns on a pedestal ateach side of the great doorway (Plate CVI)carries a returnof the moulded architrave at right angles to the wall. Thismust have been intended to support something, and makesone think of the lion and lioness that stand sentry on eachside of the great portal at Trail, and project in the same way.The central tympanum has like that at Aries a figureof our Lord in a vesica, or rather an aureole, between thefour apocalyptic beasts. On the lintel-frieze, is a representationof the last supper, and scenes from our Lord'slife and passion occupy the continuations over thecolonnade, ending with the washing of the disciples' feeton the proper right,and beginning again with thebetrayal in the garden and the kiss of Judasproper left, in right sequence of event.on the1Mr McGibbon cites the following- inscription which is said to becopied from an old one now lost. But it seems imperfect and the datetoo early for the portal.ANNO DOMINI 1116 HOC TEMPLVM SANCTIEGIDII ^EDIFICARE CEPIT MENSEAPRILI FERIA 2 A IN OCTAVA PASCHAE.ArchiL of Provence etc. i p. 206.