The cupolas both of the Duomo and Battisterio are octangular.

On ascending a few steps at the other end of this hall, in a small octangular room, are the statue of Meleager; the famous Torso; the tomb of Scipio with bas-reliefs.

On leaving the chamber you come into an octangular gallery, issuing from which are four circular chambers; each chamber contains a masterpiece of art.

Each separate face of their towers, whether these towers were square or octangular, ended above in a gable; and from these gables, in various ways, arose the octangular pointed roof or spire.

Each separate face of their towers, whether these towers were square or octangular, ended above in a gable; and from these gables, in various ways, arose the octangular pointed roof or spire.

This consisted in a tall, perpendicular, octangular structure, placed upon the tower, quite light and open, and pierced with long windows.

Here they used to swing the bells, and the place was called the lantern or louvre; thence the octangular spire arose easily and naturally.

These structures accompanied the tall lantern through its whole height; thus rendering the entire group a memory, as it were, of the square tower below, while, at the same time, it beautifully foreshadowed the octangular character of the sky-seeking spire above,a significant symbolism.

It is immediately under the dome, in form octangular, and lined with silver, divided into panels representing the different actions of the life of the saint.

" The roof of the Chapel is divided into nine groined arches, supported by six octangular pillars in two rows, having small circular columns at the four points.

Head rather long with nine plates, frontal plate being divided; the snout very blunt, truncated; the upper central labial scale octangular, with a deep concavity on the labial margin; the anterior and posterior mental scales long.