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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 46

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been formed those hidden labyrinthic gallerieswhich led from the side farthest from the street to the neighbor-ing sand-pits, in order that, in case of surprise, an escape might beprovided, and that the believers, when watched by informers, mightfind unobserved entrance by means of ladders and… … uiJM! Fig. 5.—Forms of Tombs in the Catacombs.a. Loculus. b. Arcosolium. Severus, in the year 211, to the beginning of the persecution underDecius, in 250, the work was pursued with great diligence, and butrarely interrupted. After the founder of the necropolis, Pope Zephyrinus, hadbeen interred…

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