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
ed by De Kossi, in 1857, in what has sincebeen presumed to be the cemetery of Pretextatus. He describes itas a large square apartment, with walls of excellent brickwork, whichhad been lined throughout with Greek marble, — the ceiling being ahigh elliptical vault terminating in a square luminarium.… … Fig. 2. Ciibicula 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 theeliamber 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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