Burial Niches Wall-Paintings Crypts Cubicle Epitaphs Graffiti One of the smallest Christian cemeteries, this has always been one of the most accessible catacombs located near a platform, under which is a sandstone cavity which once may have been named “ad catacumbas”, thus giving this and all other tombs of this type their name. Inside are […]
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Burial Niches Wall-Paintings Crypts Cubicula Epitaphs Graffiti Sited along the Appian way, these catacombs were built around the end of the 2nd century, with some private Christian hypogea and a funeral area directly dependent on the Roman church which became the official one for the Roman Church. The arcades, where more than fifty martyrs and […]
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