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Agnellus who noted that S. Eusebio was built by the Arian bishop Unimundus
in 513.36 It is possible that the excavated remains of a large basilica known as
the Ca’Bianca church, found some 2 km south of Sant’Apollinare in Classe, may
be one of these churches. It is datable to the end of the 5th or beginning of the
6th century and had an octagonal baptistery on its north flank.37
Perhaps the first church to be built by the Ostrogoths was their cathedral,
part of an episcopal complex that included a baptistery and episcopal palace
(Figure 14.8).38 The church, known today as Santo Spirito and perhaps originally
36 Agnellus, Liber Pontificalis 70, ed. Deliyannis, p. 239; Cirelli, Ravenna, pp. 98–9.
37 Deliyannis, Ravenna, pp. 197–8.
38 Verhoeven, Early Christian Churches of Ravenna, pp. 143–6; Deliyannis, Ravenna,
pp. 174–87.
FIGURE 14.7 Marble column capital with monogram of Theoderic
Formerly located in the Ecclesia Gothorum, Ravenna.
Photo by Mark Johnson