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 368

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 368 — taken as an axiom, that when thelociili in the walls of an ambulacrum are broken through inorder to afford an entrance into a gallery, this portion of thegallery at least is of a later date than the ambulacrum intowhich it enters, and did not form part of its original plan.Thus, in Fig. 46, which… … galleries C^ and C- were not contemplated in the original planof the gallery C, and were constructed at a much later date.This observation, however, only affects the outside walls ofB and C, and enables us to exclude from the original plan allthose passages which now branch out from them ; but it…

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