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 262
s used more frequently in that country than any form of the monogram. In Italy it began about the beginning of the fifth century, and by the end of the sixth century was very common everywhere. Once or twice also we find on tombs in the Catacombs a monogram formed from the union of and the letter… … Fig. 28. — SnrcoJ'hn^iis found in Crypt of St Luciiia, representing Ulysses and the Siren.
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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