58 A RECENT VISIT TO THE DALMATIAN COAST. 
being for a considerable distance arranged in a scale-like form, 
giving place higher up to ordinary concentric courses. Externally 
this dome is covered with a pyramidal tiled roof which, notwith- 
standing doubts expressed to the contrary, has been clearly shown 
to be the original roof. 
This ancient Temple of Jupiter is now the Duomo, the cathedral 
of Spalato. Two of the original semicircular niches are fitted 
Fig. 8. 
with two Gothic canopied shrines or chapels; they are very 
elaborate and handsome, and date from the middle of the fifteenth 
century. There is also a very fine medizval pulpit of marble of 
various colours. 
On the west side of the great peristyle court, that is on the side 
opposite to the Temple of Jupiter, is another smaller temple, now 
the baptistery, which has generally been considered by antiquaries 
as having been dedicated to A®sculapius, although some have 
looked upon it as the mausoleum of Diocletian. “It is a small 
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