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 34
-the apostolic? tlypt, adjoining; the eatacronih of St. (.alixtiiH. to»«ypt(Figs. () and 7.) In plan it is an irrcj^ndar scMirKircle, or rath«a- nionjthan a SiMuicirclc, about thirty-two fe(;t in diauHiter, with a ran<;e ofarcosolia extend ins;- (putt; around the perii)hery. The ehandjer ishigh… … Fig.. 6. Plan of the Apostolic Crypt. when the Emperor Heliogabalus was about to make a circus forracing elephants on that spot, the Christians, fearful that the bodyof the saint might be disturbed, removed it to this crypt on theAppian Way, whence, after an interval of forty years or so, it…
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