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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 215

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ate, largely insecret, and the languageof sjmbols took on in-creased importance wlierepersecution so often fol-lowed open speech. Uponthe walls of the cata-combs, which served notmerely as places of sep-ulture but also as meet-ing-places for worship, twere painted scripturalscenes and symbolic…

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