Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 52
se oratories served the double purpose of the largercrypts, which were both monumental tombs and places of worship,it still appears that their form is derived less from the plan of theround-topped arches above the niches for the bodies than from thedirect prototypes offered by antique mausoleums,… … Fig. 9A.—Antique Man-o-leum on the Appian Way. Fig. <)H.—Orator)- of-ixti c-t Csecilise. Fig. qc.—Oratory ofS. Soteridis. halls of assemblage existed from the earliest times in those citieswhere Christian communities had been formed, these being gen-erally provided by the dwellings of the more…
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