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 56
xcavations, that they were used exclusively by the Christians as places of burial and of holding religious assemblies. Modern research has now placed it beyond a doubt, that they were also originally de- signed for this purpose and for no other ; that they were not deserted sand-pits {arenaria;) or… … Fig. 2. — Plan of Arenaria at St Agnes. Jews both in Rome and elsewhere. Our readers may judge for themselves, even from the miniature specimen here set before them, how easy it is to distinguish the galleries of an arenaria from those of a Catacomb. These plans represent a portion of the cemetery,…
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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