Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 564
y by an excavation in the side ofa hill, or by a staircase; in that to Santa Domitilla (Fig. 143), theseare combined. For burial purposes narrow passages Description otfrom two and a half to four feet wide, and from seven to ca^comte.ten feet high, were made iu the soft tufa rock, in the faces of… … Fig. 1*3.—The entrance to Santa Domirilla at Rome. of graves, locidi, sometimes as many as seven, rose one above an-other (Fig. 144). As the demands for space increased, fromthe main corridors side aisles were constructed, thus making a com-plicated net-work of passages which none but the initiated…
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