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Catacombs
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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1997
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Catacombs (Gk., kata kumbas, ‘by the hollows’, an area south of Rome). In these long underground burial chambers (outside the city walls as burial was not permitted within) the bodies of the departed were placed in coffin-like recesses, in rows usually about four deep. Christian catacombs seem to be copied from Jewish ones. Six Jewish catacombs have been found in Rome. Cȧtacombs are found outside many cities, but the most famous and extensive—several hundred miles of them—are at Rome. Services commemorating
martyrs buried there were held, and they became centres of
pilgrimage as the cult of martyrs developed.
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Jewish Catacomb Predates Christian Ones
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...their dead in Roman catacombs. But Dutch experts...material from a Jewish catacomb in the city say...the Villa Torlonia catacomb, a Jewish burial...s 60 Christian catacombs, Rutgers said...many tombs in the catacomb, located under...six known Jewish catacombs in Rome. Four of...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Jewish catacomb may predate Christian sites
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 7/21/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...their dead in Roman catacombs. But Dutch experts...material from a Jewish catacomb in the city say...the Villa Torlonia catacomb, a Jewish burial...s 60 Christian catacombs, Rutgers said...many tombs in the catacomb, located under...six known Jewish catacombs in Rome. Four of...
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Study: Jewish catacomb in Rome predates Christian burial sites
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...their dead in Roman catacombs. But Dutch experts...material from a Jewish catacomb in the city say...the Villa Torlonia catacomb, a Jewish burial...s 60 Christian catacombs, Rutgers said...the Villa Torlonia catacomb. The lines of tombs...six known Jewish catacombs in Rome. The ...
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LEARNING ABOUT FAITH AND LIFE IN THE CATACOMBS OF ROME
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/2/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...based International Catacomb Society, has spent...Christian Imagery in the Catacombs of Rome," which opens...only seven Christian catacombs are open. Yet if the...place. Seven Jewish catacombs have been discovered...found The International Catacomb Society here, dedicated...
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Les catacombes chretiennes de Rome: Origine, developpement, decor, inscriptions / Subterranean Rome: In search of the roots of Christianity in the Catacombs of the Eternal City
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...historical survey of the catacombs replete with interesting...information: the term "catacomb" comes from two words...have been some sixty catacombs discovered to date...references, particularly to catacomb art, from those open...His "Guide to the Catacombs" (chapter 4) contains...
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Radiocarbon chronology of the Kalmykia Catacomb culture of the west Eurasian steppe.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...complexes, as in the case of the Kalmykia Catacomb culture, which was traditionally considered as one of the late Catacomb cultures (Gimbutas 1965; Bratchenko...to provide a detailed description of Catacomb culture, but to focus only on its...
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Catacomb with over 1,000 coffins discovered in SW China
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/22/2003; 547 words
; Catacomb with over 1,000 coffins discovered in...GUIYANG, March 22 (Xinhua) -- A large catacomb containing more than 1,000 coffins has...Guizhou province, local experts said. The catacomb is believed to have belonged to the Miao...
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A mass grave from the catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus in Rome, second-third century AD.(Research)(Author abstract)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...surface) but then the catacomb fell gradually into...of all Christian catacombs in Rome (Fiocchi...area X, first catacomb level), located...in the rest of the catacomb, and indeed in other catacombs. These are normally...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Rome's catacombs were likely a Jewish invention
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/21/2005; ; 454 words
; ...their dead in Roman catacombs. But Dutch experts...material from a Jewish catacomb in the city say...the Villa Torlonia catacomb, a Jewish burial...s 60 Christian catacombs, Rutgers said...likely that they used catacombs from the beginning...find that a Jewish catacomb under Rome was ...
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Creepy Catacombs of Paris
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Observer; 11/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...Though it might be creepy at first, the Catacombs of Paris give you a sense of history...its entrance near the Notre Dame, the Catacombs are a famous underground ossuary located...artistic intricacies of the passages of the Catacombs take you to a bygone era. The official...
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Catacombs
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Catacombs Burial places for...ancient form is the catacomb, an underground...Holmes, is "The New Catacomb," a story of two...noted experts on catacombs. The womanizer has...the other of a new catacomb he has discovered...
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catacombs
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
catacombs , cemeteries of the early Christians...Besides serving as places of burial, the catacombs were used as hiding places from persecution...regularly used for religious services. Catacombs exist at Rome and also at Naples, Venosa...
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catacomb
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...entombment of corpses. Catacomb is properly the name given...example of a brick-vaulted catacomb under the Anglican chapel...decorated) in a public catacomb was called cubiculum . 2. The plural, catacombs , is the term for a large...
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Demby, William
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...Demby's next important work, the novel The Catacombs, was published. The Catacombs , which takes place in Rome and features a character...sexy actress/model and an African nun. The Catacombs met with mixed reactions from critics. Its...
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iconography
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Christian iconography is rich and varied. Beginning with the catacomb frescoes in the early centuries of the Christian era, it...representation of a given person or scene from the art of the catacombs to that of the Gothic cathedrals. Thus the art of the Middle...
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