Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 283
pre-sentation of an orans, or a Good Shepherd, or merely for theinscription. Perhaps the most ancient of the strictly Christian sarcoph-agi is that of Livia Primitiva (Fig. 16), which was found nearthe tomb of S. Peter, and belongs probably to the second cen-tury. The Good Shepherd, the fish, and… … Fig. 93. -Sarcophagus in the Lateran Museum. Third century. Th<repeated three times in the midst of a vintage of genii. d Shepherd not later than the early years of the fourth. There is nothingdistinctively Christian in the design, and it may very well havebeen made by a pagan artist. Of the…
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