Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 51
uildings of the Catacomb of Calixtus were, forthe most part, destroyed as early as the time of the persecutions, itis difficult to say what may have been their architectural charac-teristics. The portal near the Catacomb of Domitilla, having be-longed to a very early Christian tomb, certainly… … Fig. 8.—Section and Plan of Part of the Catacombs of Alexandria. masonry antedating the Christian era. We must distinguish be-tween these entrances and the oratories (called also Memories^ Mar-tyria, or Confcssioncs), which seem to have been erected to markabove ground the central points of the…
Art, Medieval
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