Catacombs

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Catacombs

See also Burial Practices, and Christian Archaeology

The Catacombs in Scholarship

Some inscriptions found in the Roman catacombs shows that the first modern scholars to visit them were Pomponio Leto and other members of his Accademia Romana. They however were interested in Roman not Christian antiquities.

Lists of the Conservatori dei Sacri Cimiteri di Roma

• Marco Antonio Boldetti (1718-)

• Giuseppe Settele (-1842)
• Giuseppe Marchi (1842-)
• Giovanni Battista de Rossi (-1894)

The Commission of Sacred Archaeology is established in 1852:

• Orazio Marucchi (1894-)

• Antonio Ferrua

References

• Catacombs / Leonard V. Rudgers / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume, 463-464

External links

• Wikipedia