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 38
that known as xhe apos-the apostolic crypt, adjoining the catacomb of St. Calixtus. ^°^^^ ^^^^^(Figs. 6 and 7.) In plan it is an irregular semicircle, or rather morethan a semicircle, about thirty-two feet in diameter, with a range ofarcosolia extending quite around the periphery. The chamber… … Fig-. 0. 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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