. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . LIVIA N1CAFLV 5LIVIAEPPJMITIVAESOROR1 FECIT QA/*AN-XXIlll-MVlllI. 111. 65.—Sarcophagus of Livia Primitiva. and the workmanship of this piece of sculpture proves it to belongto the period anterior to Constantine2; and hence, too, comes asarcophagus, now at the Lateran Museum, to which, havingregard to its artistic character, a date prior to Constantine mustbe assigned ; its decorations are antique and almost The rich mine of the whilom Vatican Cemetery continues,even in our own day, to yield Christian memorials. A sarco-phagus belon

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. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . LIVIA N1CAFLV 5LIVIAEPPJMITIVAESOROR1 FECIT QA/*AN-XXIlll-MVlllI. 111. 65.—Sarcophagus of Livia Primitiva. and the workmanship of this piece of sculpture proves it to belongto the period anterior to Constantine2; and hence, too, comes asarcophagus, now at the Lateran Museum, to which, havingregard to its artistic character, a date prior to Constantine mustbe assigned ; its decorations are antique and almost The rich mine of the whilom Vatican Cemetery continues,even in our own day, to yield Christian memorials. A sarco-phagus belonging to the fourth century, brought to light near theVatican in 1890, depicts Jonas between two But the finest discovery in this neighbourhood was a sarco-phagus of classical shape, now at the Lateran Museum. Betweenrepresentations of the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Condemnation ofChrist, is pictured in relievo the solemn conferring of the Law onSt. Peter. (111. 66). Above Uranus with his canopy of clouds 1 Cp. Wilperts explanations of this stele (remarkable on account of the IXGTCZWXTwN) in his Prin

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