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 53
labyrinth of galleries excavatedin the bowels of the earth in the hills around the Eternal City; 26 Roma Sottcrranea. not in the hills on which the city itself was built, but in thosebeyond the walls. Their extent is enormous, not as to theamount of superficial soil which they underlie, for they… … Fig. I.—Gallery with Tombs. the other; and they cross and recross one another, sometimesat short intervals, on each of these levels ; so that, on the whole,there are certainly not less than 350 miles of them; that isto say, if stretched out in one continuous line, they wouldextend the whole length…
Cimitero di Callisto (Rome, Italy) · Catacombs · Inscriptions
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