100 objects, each described and illustrated in excellent colour photographs.  Includes a Glossary of terms.  Paperback. 160 pages.  In new condition.  Cat No 4939

An illustrated guide to the extraordinary network of overlapping and interconnecting catacombs that lie beneath the streets and buildings of Rome, used originally for burials because of land shortage, and decorated with the very earliest Christian iconography in the form of wall frescoes and scul