Decoration in the Catacombs of Praetextatus on the Via Appia, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'Beginning of 3rd Century , pigeons with cantharus, of an arcaded fresco in the "High Chamber of the spelunca magna".' After Joseph Wilpert. Plate XLV, fig 102, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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