150 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, the house oi Joachim stood, a conspicuous sanc- 
V ■ .y . I tuary, built with square stones, was afterwards 
erected. It had two rows of pillars, by which 
the vault of the triple nave was supported. At 
the upper end were three chapels ; now appro- 
priated to the dwellings of the {Arabs) Moors." 
From the allusion here made to the nave and 
side aisles, it is evident that Quaresmius believed 
its form to have been different from that of a 
Greek cross : yet the four arches of the centre 
and the dome they originally supported do 
rather denote this style of architecture. The 
date of its construction is incidently afforded by 
a passage in Epiphanius^, in the account given 
by him of one Josephus, a native of Tiberias, who 
was authorized by Constantine to erect this and 
other edifices of a similar nature, in the Holy 
Land. Epiphaniits relates, that he built the 
churches of Tiberias, Dioccesarea, and Capernaum; 
and Dioccesarea was one of the names given to 
Sepphoris". This happened towards the end of 
() ) The Xei\.\\x\or\yoi Epiphanius concerning this country is the more 
valuable, as he was himself a native of /'fl/<F*/j>?e, and flourished so early 
as the fourth century. He was born at the village of Besanduc, in 320 ; 
lived with Hilarion and Hesyvhius ; was made bishop of Salamis (now 
Famagosfa) in Cyprus, in 366 ; and died in 403, at the age of eighty, 
in returning from Constantinople, where he had been to visit Chrysostom. 
(2) As it appears in the writings of Socrates Ecclesiasticui and 
Sozomen. f^id. Svcrat, Hist. xi. 33. Sozomen. Histor. lib. iv. c. 7. 
