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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 231

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he advantage of his direct and immediate guidance so entirely as we have hitherto had. The main object of his work is to give a topographical, historical, and chronological edition of all the monuments of each Catacomb. It is not a treatise on Christian epigraphy, nor art, nor symbolism, yet,… … Fk;. 20. — The Good Shepherd in the centre of the cci/ing of one of the most mil lent cubicula" in the Crypts of St I.ucina.

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