Split Chapel of St Martin in the Golden Gate
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soleum was built by laying brick in the form of fan patterns, arranged into circles in the last third of the dome. In the axis of the mausoleum in the western sacred space there is an excellently preserved rectangular temple with a stone coffered ceiling consecrated to Jupiter. In the same space, on both sides of the approach to the Temple of Jupiter the foundations of two circularground-plan shrines have been found; these, according to one Renaissance description, were dedicated to Cybele and – in the north – to Venus. As early as the 5th/6th century, a church dedicated to St Martin was incorporated into the narrow sentry passage over the Golden Gate. The altar screen is from the Early Croat period (11th century), when a belfry was built over the little church, one like that still preserved in the West Gate. In front of the northern elevation, in 1069 the Convent of St Benedict or St Euphemia was put up; it was closed down at the time of the French rule at the beginning of the 19th century. Apart from archaeological remains of an early Romanesque basilica, only the Chapel of the Blessed Arnir, built by George of Dalmatia (Juraj Dalmatinac) in 1444, has remained. Close by is the monumental bronze statue of Gregory of Nin, which (originally for the Peristyle) was done in 1929 by Ivan Meštrović. Gregory of Nin, Bishop of Nin from the early