Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 567
»urposes of ventilation, as well as of lighting the largerrooms which were used for special services, shafts were extendecthrough the soil to the surface. These were called Z«;«/na;7« [v. Fig.147). When the location of the catacombs must be concealed, thesewere small, but in times of peace to tlie… … Fip. 147.—The section of a cliiunlirr and a, lumiuurium iii tin- CaUicuiiili SS. Marcfllino ePietro, Rome. rock, the millions of bodies laid away with tenderest care in thesenatural sarcophagi, whose enclosing ])lates of marble Avere inscribedwith words and sj^mbols indicative of the foimer iaith…
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