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 374
from them by a few feet of rock, might be silently passing out at another. Even when the Pagans had set guards at all the entrances into the arcuarium^ the Christians had still a way of escape through an exceedingly narrow and steep staircase, Secret stair-case.which leads directly from the… … Fk;. 50.—Secret Staircase into Arejiarimii. of the arcfiariuni, and must have been useless either for ingressor egress, except to those who had friends below to assistthem with a movable ladder, or some other means of con-necting the lowest step with the ground. In none of thegalleries uniting the…
Cimitero di Callisto (Rome, Italy) · Catacombs · Inscriptions
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