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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 63

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that a number of the greatest of the Christian cemeteries werelocated. The location of the Christian cemeteries in this regionmay have been due in part to the popularity of burial along thevia xippia; but it is to be noted also that the Jewish colony wasfrom tlie first established in the… … Fig. 6. — a crypt in Cyrene. that is, from the Aventine and Trastevere quarters, whichwere the poorest and most crowded of the city. Along theAppia were the cemeteries of Balbina, Callistus, Pretextatus,and ad Catacumbas (S. Sebastian); on the via Ardeatina, thewhole complex which is represented by…

Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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