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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 196

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interior of this liuninare merely by way of ornament, and because their names were just then in men's mouths. This seems also to be the only account that can be given of the appearance on this wall of the third figure, Optatus. We can only conjecture that he was the Bishop of Vesceter, in Numidia,… … Fig. i8. On the inensa 0/ an Anosolinni in Cemetery 0/ St Soteris

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