Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 220
and insult. It first appears, in the form of a plain Greek cross,in an epitaph on the monumental stone of Xene, thewife of Basileo, in St. Lawrences, Verona (a.d. 407). 198 HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. In later sarcophagi * and mosaics it appears, as anemblem of Christs Person, in a central… … Wall-painting, from the Churcli of the Nativity, Bethlehem. baptistery in the Catacomb of St. Callistus, mentionedat p. 92, and another somewhat similar from theChurch 6f the Nativity at Bethlehem.f A representation of the actual cross of Calvaryappears first on the sarcophagus of Anicius…
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