Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 53
CEMETERIES equally apt to denote a surface buiying place or one beneaththe ground. There was no special designation for the wholecomplex of the underground cemetery; particular areas, espe-cially the chambers which included the tomb of a martyr, werecalled cryptce; ordinary chambers, c?(6/cf</a;… … Fig. 1. —Plan of part of the catacomb of Domitilla. It is these narrow corridors or galleries, extending often togreat length and crossing at every angle, which are the charac-teristic feature of the Roman catacombs, and give the impres-sion not only of boundless extent, but of hopeless…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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