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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 149

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the interior of the cemetery. We appeal to it now as a decisive proof, from which it is impos- sible to escape, that the cemetery of St Callixtus has been re-discovered, and that the mediaeval inscriptions underneath the church of St Sebastian were set up in ignorance, and now only help to… … Fig. 16. — A fresco representing the Bnptistn of our Lord in one 0/ the cuhiciila in the crypt of St Liicina.

Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism

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