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the two
original side entries; opposite are placed two acritani
pillars that were brought in Venice after 1256 the town
of S. Giovanni d'Acri. In the edge toward the Door
of the Paper of the Doge's Palace there is a work of
probable Syriac origin dating back to the fourth century
A.D in porphyry representing the Tetrarchis, for someone Diocleziano and three
emperors of the end of the third century. The tradition
however relates that they have been the Moors, petrified
for divine punishment for having tried to steal the
treasures of the Basilica. There is also a trunk of
Syriac column called "stone of the
proclamation" swept away by the the collapse of the
bell tower in 1902, it is placed in the corner of the
square; here the ordinances of the Republic were read. |
