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 255
Good Shepherd. Elsewhere it appears also in his hands. In these latter instances, it might not unreasonably be taken as merely one of the ornamental accessories of pastoral life, inserted without any religious signification, but its position in the pre- sent example seems to indicate something more… … cemetery of SS. Peter and Marcellinus, resting on the back of the lamb itself, we are reminded of the undoubted fact that * See fig. 14, page 103. P
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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