Arte Paleocristiano
Marble portrait
bust of Memnon
the African
philosopher, 150160 A.D. (Berlin:
Stadtl. Mus.) 0.27
meters tall.
Portrait bust,
perhaps of the
philosopher
Plotinus, late
3rd c. A.D.
(Ostia Museum)
Limestone
funerary
pillar, from
S.
Ambroix,
of the
carpenter
Mansuetu
s with his
tools, 2nd
c. (S.
Germ. en
Laye,
Mus.
d'Antiq.)
1.90 m.
tall. In the
plebianAquitainia
n
provincial
style
Ichthys
Early Christian symbol of a fish. Greek for fish is
an acrostic for Jesus, Christ, God, Son, Saviour
Fish in early Christian (Coptic) art
Limestone, Egypt, 5th century B. C.)
Musée du Louvre, Paris © cliché Chuzeville/RMN
Detail from marble sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, c. 359. In the Museo
Petriano, St. Peter's, Vatican City.
Catacomba
Santi Marcellino
e Pietro, Roma
Particolare del
Cristo in trono
tra Pietro e
Paolo, IV - V
secolo
Marble inlay
of the deified
Sun from a
Mithraeum,
202-229 A.D.
(Rome: S.
Prisca). 0.50
meters.
The Jewish
Catacombs of
Vigna Randanini
were discovered
in the 19th
century on the
Appian way.