Room: Beneath the Pendentive Bay
This room is within Palace of Diocletian.
Center map on Beneath the Pendentive Bay
Beneath the Pendentive Bay - N - (-------------------------------------------------) W <---(M)---> E - S - The alternating compound pendentives to your far east and west soar into the air, branching into a rib vault above you. These vaults you see are diagonal and transverse ribs, which compose a structural skeleton that partially supports the fairly massive body of the building. Other elements you notice as you slowly proceed are the four large buttresses to your north, supporting the impressive central dome that rests above them. You are motivated to continue north, to the tetrarch chamber.