Roma sotterranea : or some account of the Roman catacombs, especially of the cemetery of San Callisto (1869)
Northcote, J. Spencer (James Spencer), 1821-1907, Brownlow, W. R · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 102
Roma So tt err a nea . 72 done, however, the vestibule had been filled with sarcophagi of various sizes, of which numerous fragments may still be seen lying about ; we find them also (of terra-cotta) buried underneath the ground ; and the date even of the last of these seems not to come below the… … Fig. io. — Painting on 7-oof of most ancient />m~t af Cemetejy of St Doiiiitilla. In passing from the vestibule into the catacomb, we recognise the transition from the use of the sarcophagus to that of the common lociihts ; for the first two or three graves on either side, though really mere…
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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