Roma Sotterranea; or, Some account of the Roman catacombs especially of the cemetery of San Callisto, compiled from the works of Commendatore de Rossi with the consent of the author (1869)

Northcote, J. Spencer (James Spencer), 1821-1907, Brownlow, W.-R. (William-R.), 1830-1901, Rossi, Giovanni Battista de, 1822-1894 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 107

An illustration from Roma Sotterranea; or, Some account of the Roman catacombs especially of the cemetery of San Callisto, compiled from the works of Commendatore de Rossi with the consent of the author, 1869, leaf 107 — light until six years later,when the commission of Sacred Archaeology were persuaded totake this cemetery as the special scene of their labours. Then,amid the soil which encumbered the entrance to this crypt,three or four fragments were discovered of a large marble slab,Damasine in- marked by a few… … St Quirinus,A.D. 130. The excavations of the commission revealed the existenceof another crypt on the opposite side of the gallery, which Isstill older than that of St Januarius; so that, whereas themartyrdom of St Januarius belongs to the year a.d. 162, De * Only those letters, or parts of…

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