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A procession in the San Callistus catacombs in Rome, painted by Alberto Pisa. Catacombs are man-made underground passages primarily used for religious purposes, particularly for burial. Any chamber used as a burial place is considered a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the Roman Empire. [1] [2]
The word catacombs comes from the Latin root word catatumbas meaning either "among the tombs" or, according to other translations from the original Late Latin, "next to the quarry". The later translation stems from the first excavations done to create the catacombs system, which was conducted outside of Rome near the quarry. [3]
The word catacumbas, through a process of extension and assimilation, was gradually used to identify all the hypogeum burial sites, thus simply called catacombs. The underground graveyard, called di San Sebastiano since the Early Middle Ages , was known since the 3rd century as in memoria apostolorum , a toponym referred to the presence within ...
The Catacomb Church (Russian: Катакомбная церковь, romanized: Katakombnaya tserkov') as a collective name labels those representatives of the Russian Orthodox clergy, laity, communities, monasteries, brotherhoods, etc., who for various reasons, moved to an illegal position from the 1920s onwards.
An architectural niche that houses a body, as in a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment. Loggia A gallery formed by a colonnade open on one or more sides. The space is often located on an upper floor of a building overlooking an open court or garden. Lunette A half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void.
The skeletal remains of six million people lie, neatly arranged, in catacombs (also known as ossuaries or charnel houses) beneath the streets of Paris, France. The city has an estimated 300 kilometres (190 mi) of tunnels and pathways, of which 11,000 square metres (2.7 acres) are packed tightly with the bones of those re-interred from the city ...
The most-discussed discovery in the catacomb was a statue rediscovered by Pirro Ligorio in 1553, now in the entrance hall of the Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. It shows a bearded man sitting on a throne, dressed as a philosopher, with the sides of his footstool sculpted with the Greek titles of Hippolytus' books.
A 4th-century arcosolium in the hypogeum of Via Dino Compagni (Via Latina Catacomb), Rome. The figure of the frescoes is the goddess Tellus, after whom this tomb is named. The 15th-century arcosolium of the doncel Martín Vázquez de Arce, in the Sigüenza Cathedral, Spain. Like most post-Roman era arcosolia, it is aboveground.