Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 49
he 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 cannot be… … 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 Confessiones), which seem to have been erected to markabove ground the central points of the…
Art, Medieval
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