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HIC DAMASI MATER POSVIT LAVREN[TIA MEMBRA] . In the same See also:

year See also:building operations in the Via di Sant' Onofrio revealed the presence of catacombs beneath the See also:foundations: examination of the loculi showed that no martyrs or illustrious persons were buried here. In 1903 a new See also:cemetery with frescoes came to See also:light on the Via See also:Latina, considered by Marucchi to have belonged to a heretical See also:sect. In the same year the Jewish cemetery on the Via Pbrtuense, known to Bosio but since forgotten, was rediscovered. The subterranean See also:basilica of SS. See also:Felix and Adauctus, discovered by Boldetti and afterwards choked up with ruins, was cleared again: the See also:crypt, begun by See also:Damasus and enlarged by See also:Siricius, contains frescoes of the 6th-7th centuries. A See also:good See also:plan of the catacombs at Albano (at the 15th milestone of the See also:Appian way), discovered by Boldetti and described by De See also:Rossi, has been published by Marucchi (Nuovo Bulletino di archeologia cristiana, 1902, pp. 89 ff.). In 1904 a small subterranean cemetery was discovered at See also:Anagnia. Catacombs have also been recently discovered on the site of See also:Hadrumetum near Sousse in See also:Tunisia. (014 W. R.

B.; O. M. D.) discoveries made by the active Commissione di archeologia sacra are chronicled with as little delay as possible in the Nuovo Bulletino de archeologia cristiana published in See also:

Rome. The most See also:recent accounts of the catacombs are to be found in the following books: Armellini, Gli Antichi Cimiteri cristiani di See also:Roma'e d' Italia (Rome, 1893); O. Marucchi, Le Catacombe romane (Rome, 1903; also translated into See also:French), Manuale di epigrafia cristiana (See also:Milan, 1904) ; M. Besnier, See also:Les Catacombes de Rome (See also:Paris, 1909). Among the older See also:works are: Bosio, Roma sotterranea, Severano's edition (1632), and Aringhi's edition (1651); Boldetti, Osservazioni sopra i cimiteri dei santi See also:martini (Rome, 1720) ; Bottari, Sculture e pitture sagre, &c. (Rome, 1737–1754); See also:Seroux d'See also:Agincourt, Histoire de fart See also:par les monuments (Paris, 1823 ; See also:German ed., 184o) ; G. Marchi, Monumenti delle arti cristiane See also:primitive (Rome, 1844) ; Raoul Rochette, Tableau See also:des catacombes de Rome (2nd ed., Paris, 1853) ; Perret, Les Catacombes de Rome (Paris, 1855)—a sumptuous See also:folio See also:work, but not always accurate, See also:Roller, Les Catacombes de Rome (Paris, 1881); V. See also:Schultze, See also:Die Katakomben (See also:Leipzig, 1882). Works written in See also:English are: See also:Northcote and Brownlow, Roma sotterranea (See also:London, 1869; based upon De Rossi) ; See also:Wharton Marriott, The Testimony of the Catacombs (London, 1870) ; J. H.

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Parker, The See also:Archaeology of Rome: the Catacombs; See also:Smith and Cheetham, See also:Dictionary of See also:Christian Antiquities, s.v. " Catacombs ; R. Lanciani, See also:Pagan and Christian Rome (London, 1892) ; W. Lowry, Christian See also:Art and Archaeology, ch. ii. (London, 19o1; auseful introduction to the subject) ; H. See also:Gee, " The See also:Church in the Catacombs," in W. Lefroy's Lectures in Ecclesiastical See also:History (1896); Th. See also:Mommsen, in the Contemporary See also:Review, May 1871. Accounts of the catacombs will also be found in the encyclopaedias and manuals published under the following names: Martigny, Perate, F. X. Kraus (Realencyklopadie and Geschichte der christlichen Kunst), Reusens, V. Schultze and C.

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Kauffmann, and in the large new Dictionnaire d'archeologie chretienne et liturgie, published at Paris under the editorship of Dom F. Cabrol. The catacombs at See also:Naples are described in C. F. Bellermann, fiber die altesten christlichen Begrdbnisstatten and besonders die Katakomben zu Neapel (See also:Hamburg, 1839) ; Armellini, as above, and V. Schultze, Die Katakomben von See also:San Gennaro dei Poveri in Neapel (See also:Jena, 1877). For the catacombs in See also:Malta, A. A. Caruana, See also:Ancient Pagan Tombs and Christian Cemeteries in the Islands of Malta (Malta, 1898), and A. Mayr, " Die altchristlichen Begrabnisstatten auf Malta," in Romische Quartalschrift, vol. xv. pp. 216 and 352 (Rome, 1901), may be consulted.

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account of the Sicilian catacombs is given by J. Ftihrer, Forschungen zur Sicilia sotterranea (See also:Munich, 1897) ; and D. C. Barrecca, Le Catacombe di San Giovanni in Siracusa (See also:Syracuse, 1906). A See also:catacomb of the 5th See also:century, discovered at Kertch in See also:South See also:Russia, is described by J. Kulakovsky in Materials for See also:Russian Archaeology (St See also:Petersburg, 1896; a publication of the Russian Imperial Archaeological See also:Commission), but it is written in Russian, as also is the account by V. Latyshev, in Vizantieski Vremennik, vol. Vi. pp. 337 if. (St Petersburg, 1899). The catacombs at Hadrumetum (Sousse) are described by A. F.

Leynard, Les Catacombes d'Hadrumete, deuxieme campagne de fouilles (1904–1905). See also Revue Tunisienne (1905), p. 250. For the catacombs of See also:

Alexandria, Neroutsos See also:Bey, L'Ancienne Alexandrie, may be consulted in addition to De Rossi's See also:article mentioned in the See also:text. (O. M.

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