2
عمومی::
هشتی
The square base of the dome of Hagia Sophia measures 100 X 100 Byzantine feet and there are 100 cantos in The Divine Comedy. 13 The narthex is 33 Byzantine feet (the age of Christ) in width and there are 33 cantos in each section of The Divine Comedy. 14 These numerical relationships are further evidence that poem and building are subject to the same underlying tradition of formal meaningfulness.
The "atrium" and the "narthex" together represent the earthly realm - the creation of earth and being on earth.
Those that were "crying and repenting'' were kept to the outer-narthex; those in "the process of recepdon" were allowed in the narthex itself; those "kneeling to receive pardon" were allowed in the area between the
do.me and the narthex and had to return to the narthex at a particular point in the liturgy; "novices" and those "co-standing" were allowed up to a point under the main dome and had to retreat to the narthex after the reading of the gospel; they were not allowed to receive holy communion.
Scholars writing on the Hagia Sophia, and Michelis in particular, point out that this progression is linked to a transition from the darker narthex to the areas with enhanced light within the church.17 The dome, in particular, draws attention towards it because it is inundated with light.
واژگان شبکه مترجمین ایران