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 234
this bird and the pahii-tree is the same. + See St Aug. Conf. ix. 3. Speaking of his deceased friend Nebridius, hesays, Jam ponit spirituale os ad fontem Tuum Domine, et bibit quantumpotest, &c. HIE EN GEO, Brink i?i God, is found in some epitaplis,and on drinking-glasses. § Adv. Valent. ii.,… … Fig. 21.—Epitaplifroni very a?icieiit part of Catacotiib of St Priscilla. where perhaps the dove was added by way of correcting, insome respect, the blunder of the fossor, who had fixed thestone with its written name upside down. The use of the dove as a symbol still remained in the Ilii^ syml^ol r…
Cimitero di Callisto (Rome, Italy) · Catacombs · Inscriptions
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