The inner walls of the shrine are square and plain where as the outer walls are semi-stellate ( semi-star shaped ) with numerous recesses and projections that are used for decorative relief consisting of Aedicula and pilasters.
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The garden adjoining the church, since the 15th century, was used as a cemetery for poor people, with an altar where to celebrate Mass during maladies and a stone cross with an aedicula sacred to Our Lady of Mercy.
33.
Margherita Guarducci argued that these were the remains of St . Peter and that they had been moved into a niche in the graffiti wall from the grave under the aedicula " at the time of Constantine, after the peace of the church " ( 313 ).
34.
An aedicula, to serve as a Torah Ark, was added in the 4th century AD . A donor inscription implies that it replaced an earlier wooden platform donated in the 2nd century AD, which itself had been replaced by a newer Ark donated by one Mindus Faustus in the 3rd century AD.
35.
The excavations revealed the remains of shrines of different periods at different levels, from Clement VIII ( 1594 ) to Callixtus II ( 1123 ) and Gregory I ( 590 604 ), built over an aedicula containing fragments of bones that were folded in a tissue with gold decorations, tinted with the precious murex purple.
36.
With regards to outer wall decoration, what Hardy calls " two tier ", Foekema designates as the " old style " with two sets of eves : one eaves runs around the temple where the superstructure meets the outer wall of the shrines, below which are miniature decorative towers on pilasters ( called aedicula ).
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According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the " Kouvouklion " in Greek or the " Aedicula " in Latin, which encloses this tomb.
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In 1953, after the initial archeological efforts had been completed, another set of bones were found that were said to have been removed without the archeologists'knowledge from a niche ( " loculus " ) in the north side of a wall ( the graffiti wall ) that abuts the red wall on the right of the aedicula.
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Francesco Maria Mirabella, in a letter sent to Don Tommaso Papa in 1931, writes that this legend of the Good Thief was an invention made by Liborio Dia, a poet writing in dialect from Alcamo, and that Tribonu is only the alteration of Tribona of the word in dialect, that is a niche surmounting an altar or an aedicula.
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Hoysala artists are noted for their attention to sculptural detail be it in the depiction of themes from the Hindu epics and deities or in their use of yalli ", " kirtimukha " ( gargoyles ), aedicula ( miniature decorative towers ) on pilaster, " makara " ( aquatic monster ), birds ( " hamsa " ), spiral foliage, animals such as lions, elephants and horses, and even general aspects of daily life such as hair styles in vogue.
