Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 942
veringthe walls with slabs of porphyry also, as well as the floor. It isevident that in several instances the word -platonia is applied byAnastasius to a chapel lined with marble plates for inscriptions,as at S. Sebastians. HEAD OF CHRIST IN AN AUREOLE. MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST, AND MARY… … 9IO TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. level than the road in what is now a vineyard. The soil inwhich this catacomb is made is quite different from the others;instead of the granular tufa, or volcanic sand, which is the soilgenerally used for them near the Via Appia and the Via Ardea-tina, this is an alluvial…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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