56 A RECENT VISIT TO THE DALMATIAN COAST. 
arches spring directly from the capitals of the columns right and 
left. 
The columns of the peristyle from which these beautiful arches 
spring are of cépol/ino and rose-coloured granite. A flight of steps 
on the eastern side leads to the Temple of Jupiter, now the 
Duomo. On these steps, without any other foundation, is built 
the medizeval campanile, pierced in its basement by a large arch- 
way leading to the Duomo. 
The campanile belongs to the best period of Romanesque 
work, having been begun about the middle of the thirteenth 
century, and completed about the commencement of the fifteenth. 
It is a fitting sequence to the classical work around it, and a 
standing witness to the influence of Diocletian’s building upon 
the fancy of medizval architects. 
The Temple of Jupiter is the most important and perfect of the 
existing portions of the palace, the lapse of sixteen centuries 
having left it almost untouched. Its exterior form is octagonal, 
each side being about thirteen feet long, and it is built of large 
