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 259
it was used more frequently in thatcountry than any form of the monogram. In Italy it beganabout the beginning of the fifth century, and by the end ofthe sixth century was very common everywhere. Once ortwice also we find on tombs in the Catacombs a monogramformed from the union of -p- and the… … Fig. 28.—S aixopha^Hs found i7i Crypt of St Lticina, represejiting Ulysses and the Siren. CHAPTER III. ALLEGORICAL PAINTINGS. THE second class of paintings in the Catacombs of which Parables not, 1 • r 1 1-1 .7 accurately re- we promised to speak, is of those which were suggested pioduced in at…
Cimitero di Callisto (Rome, Italy) · Catacombs · Inscriptions
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