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A former flour building filled with treasures
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The Cluny Abbey flour building visible here houses a lapidary museum in its upper room. The eight 12th-century capitals of the roundabout of the choir of Cluny III Abbey - true glories of Cluniac Romanesque sculpture and the most important historiated in the round capitals in Burgundy - are exhibited there in a semicircle on marble columns. They represent symbolic historiated scenes such as the eight tones of Gregorian chant. Simpler foliated capitals belonging to the Musée Ochier are preserved at the back of the room as well as other ancient objects from the abbey, such as an 11th-century altar table, the ashes of Saint Hugh, columns, and fragments of the choir enclosure.
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