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 240
or. Much more frequently,—in more than twenty epitaphs, for example, to say nothing of gems, in which these two symbolsare almost inseparable,—it is found in conjunction with the Symbolical Pamli?igs. 21 anchor; and we understand at once, as plainly as if it hadbeen written in ordinary letters of… … Fig. 22.—Gravestone fy-om most ancient part of St Friscilla. twenty instances; and as we have already seen that this birdwith its oHve branch, when found on a Christian gravestone, isonly another mode of expressing the most common of allancient epitaphs, Spiritus [tuus] in pace, Thy spirit [be,…
Cimitero di Callisto (Rome, Italy) · Catacombs · Inscriptions
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