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 369

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 369 — so far as to fall into A. Our grounds for so repre-senting these galleries will appear from an examination of thewoodcut on the next page, which gives the elevation of thewhole of the inner or left-hand wall of the ambulacrum A,as it exists at the present day, and shows the relative sizes… … now reaches, and it can be proved that tlie original level ofthe floor of tlie ajubulaciuin must have been that indicated by Mode of Constrttction and Development, 343 the dotted line c d. This level would give the entrance to Da height of about 7 feet, that to Y a somewhat lower elevation,but…

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