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 371
ken as an axiom, that when the loculi in the walls of an ambitlacrum are broken through in order to afford an entrance into a gallery, this portion of the gallery at least is of a later date than the ambulacrum into which it enters, and did not form part of its original plan. Thus, in Fig. 46,… … Fic; 46. — Outer Wail of Ambiilacruin C. galleries and C- were not contemplated in the original plan of the gallery C, and were constructed at a much later date. This observation, however, only affects the outside walls of B and C, and enables us to exclude from the original plan all those passages…
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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