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at Regensburg. The interior of the crypt (illustration 2) is partitioned by rows of columns into three naves of equal height and breadth, surmounted by a cross-vault divided by means of binding-arches into twelve compartments without ribs; to the east, the crypt is bounded by a transverse partition, to the west, the whole of the three naves is rounded off by a semicircular apse common to all, but this has lost much of its original structure by the foundations of the Gothic columns in the upper church being
2. ROMANESQUE CRYPT, WITH TOMBS OF THE KINGS, WAWEL CATHEDRAL. built into it in the fourteenth, and those of the choir in the eighteenth century. The monolithic shafts of the columns and their cube-shaped capitals are of simple construction, with the lower corners rounded off in the usual way; the Attic bases in the apse show by their lower tori, adorned by four knobs corresponding to the corners of the plinth, that we are in the very golden age of Romanesque style. The pilasters have capitals with square billets. The most important relic of architectonic decoration to