Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 313
lt to find,until the discovery of this column and a small frag-ment of a like column with faint indications of the representationof a scene similar to that depicted in Fig. 125. Here is clearly amartyrdom. The pursuing soldier with the deadly weajjon wouldslay the retreating victim, ACILLEVS. The… … Fig. 125.—Column from theBasilica of Petronilla. MartjT-dom of Achilles. EARLY CHRISTIAN EPIGRAPHY. 271 wliich is the symbol of the martyrs death and triumph. It iscoiijeetured that the other like e<diimii, a small portion of whichhas been found, may have similarly depicted the martyr death…
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