A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 30
11 11,( I ri;K those chambers was (liscjoveiod hy Dc Kossi, in 1857, in what lias Hineebeen presumed to bo the cemetery of l*rctextatus. He (lescribes itas a hir<;e sipiarc apartment, with walls of excellent brickwork, whichhad been lined throughout with (rreck marble, — the ceiling being ahigh… … Fig-. 2. Cubicula arranged as a Church. beauty. One side wall was pierced by an arched recess for a sarco-phagus, and an inscription here enabled the explorer to identify thechamber as the tomb of St. Januarius. The wall of the tomb towardsthe corridor from which it opened was of yellow brickwork,…
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