The oldest Christian paintings we have are from the Roman Catacombs, dated to about AD 200, and the oldest Christian sculptures are from sarcophagi, dating to the beginning of the 3rd century.

Similarly a multitude of sarcophagi are found with the rooster and the sacred cockfight with the understanding of striving for resurrection and eternal life in Christianity.

A multitude of early Christian sarcophagi are found with cockfighting within a religious, spiritual and sacred schema with the understanding of striving for resurrection and eternal life representing fighting cocks " in mortal combat as an emblem of the Christian ( spiritual ) warfare " in depictions within the Catacombs of Rome.

The city was famous for production and exports of olive oil and its painted terracotta sarcophagi, which are the finest monuments of Ionian painting in the 6th century BC.

The ends are completely covered, so there is no space visible between the sarcophagi.

The oldest surviving Christian paintings are from the site at Megiddo, dated to around the year 70, and the oldest Christian sculptures are from sarcophagi, dating to the beginning of the 2nd century.

On the left hand end of the right hand wall of the nave of the primitive basilica, rebuilt in 1933 on ancient remains, arches to end the middle of the nave of the actual church, built in the 13th century, are visible, along with the outside of the apse of the Chapel of the Relics ; whole and fragmentary collected sarcophagi ( mostly of 4th century date ) were found in excavations.

Shown on the right are two sarcophagi from the late 19th Century located in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Also visible are fragments from the destroyed basilica and ancient sarcophagi, one with scenes of the myth of Apollo.

The oldest surviving Christian paintings are from the site at Megiddo, dated to around the year 70, and the oldest Christian sculptures are from sarcophagi, dating to the beginning of the 2nd century.

However, a series of sarcophagi of a unique regional style, variously laballed Visigothic, Aquitainian, or south-west Gallic, are prevalent on both sides of the Septimania border.

These sarcophagi are made of locally quarried marble from Saint-Béat and are of varied design, but with generally flat relief which distinguishes them from Roman sarcophagi.

A number of fine marble sarcophagi from those cemeteries are now in the Archaeological Museum of Split.

The paintings and sculptures of the lids of sarcophagi from the necropolis of Carthage and El Alia, the architecture of the mausoleum of Dougga are characterized by the combined influence of Greece and Egypt.

It contained a huge collection of Roman sculptures and sarcophagi, but now there are only 84 left.

Turning to the left of the gates to the Founders ’ Vault, in the thick east foundation wall of the church are twelve longitudinal recessed niches built in the 1960s containing sarcophagi of 12 children.

The location of the necropolis is not known, but pieces of sarcophagi, Phrygian door-tombstones and funeral inscriptions in the walls of the houses in the modern Kızılca Quarter are indications that the necropolis should be looked for there.

Vercelli is home to numerous relics of the Roman period, e. g. an amphitheatre, hippodrome, sarcophagi, and many important inscriptions, some of which are Christian.

From about the 2nd century AD, inhumation ( burial of unburnt remains ) became more fashionable, in graves or sarcophagi, often elaborately carved, for those who could afford them.

In architecture, a crypt ( from the Latin crypta and the Greek κρύπτη, kryptē ; meaning concealed, private ) is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics.

Among the collection's archeological treasures were seven magnificent sarcophagi from a burial chamber associated with the Calpurnii Pisones family.

Although frequently stated to be the mummy of Khaemweset, on the basis of its possessing his jewelry, the mass of resin containing bony fragments is far more reminiscent of the undoubted Apis of tombs E and G. Its formation into the simulacrum of a human mummy also finds echo in the anthropoid coffin lids that covered the resinous masses within the sarcophagi of Apis VII and IX, there can thus be no doubt that the burial is actually that of the bull, Apis XIV.

In burial caves carved into the rock, sarcophagi and ossuaries containing pottery, glass vessels, and jewelry were found.

The commission was clearly highly important, if hurried, and the work must be considered as reflecting the best available craftsmanship in Rome at the time ; the same workshop was probably responsible for a number of surviving sarcophagi.

The dramatic incidents in this passage of Scripture must have impressed early Christian catechumens deeply, as they are represented on the walls of catacombs and on sarcophagi.

The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy-wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried ( Nag Hammadi library ) or stored in dry caves ( Dead Sea scrolls ).

The theme enjoyed a vogue during the fourth century on carved sarcophagi: at least twenty-nine have survived in full or in fragments.

The many well crafted Roman sarcophagi ( stone coffins and matching lids, hewn from single large blocks of Portland stone ) that have been unearthed locally over the years, testify to the skill of their makers.

Excavations have found a cemetery containing more than 250 Roman burials, including 11 stone sarcophagi.

These paintings have disappeared, but they likely influenced the composition of the historical reliefs carved on military sarcophagi, the Arch of Titus, and Trajan's Column.

Several Merovingian sarcophagi have been unearthed at the foot of Mount Cabert.

To date, three sarcophagi have been found, along with other human and animal remains which were added later.

The tepidarium was decorated with the richest marbles and mosaics: it received its light through clerestory windows, on the sides, the front and the rear, and would seem to have been the hall in which the finest treasures of art were placed ; thus in the thermae of Caracalla, the Farnese Hercules, and the Toro Farnese, the two gladiators, the sarcophagi of green basalt now in the Vatican, and numerous other treasures, were found during the excavations by Paul III in 1546, and transported to the Vatican and the museum at Naples.

Some sarcophagi may have been ordered during the person's life and custom-made to express their beliefs or aesthetics.

Near here too is the necropolis of the Acrocoro della Torre, where many sarcophagi have been found.

Representations of angels on sarcophagi and on objects such as lamps and reliquaries of that period also show them without wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

Annio also started to excavate Etruscan tombs, unearthing sarcophagi and inscriptions, and made a bold attempt at deciphering the Etruscan language.

Elaborately carved sarcophagi of marble, alabaster and nenfro include identificatory and achievemental inscriptions.

* Inner walls and doors of tombs and sarcophagi.

The most famous practitioners were ancient Egyptians — many nobles and highly ranked bureaucrats had their corpses embalmed and stored in luxurious sarcophagi inside their funeral mausoleums.

This is in contrast with the finely finished and decorated sarcophagi found in other pyramids of the same period.

Porphyry sarcophagi outside the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

The sarcophagus is oriented with Jadwiga's feet pointing west, unlike all the other sarcophagi in the cathedral.

In the Eleusinian mysteries her return is the symbol of immortality and hence she was frequently represented on sarcophagi.

Instead the mausoleum, which is open to visitors, now has two sarcophagi: the empty one made of marble and the original wooden one, which holds Saladin.

Tempera painting has been found on early Egyptians sarcophagi decorations.

His Deposition of Christ draws on classical sarcophagi to spread the figures across the front of the picture space in a complex and not wholly successful arrangement.

File: Raffaello, pala baglioni, deposizione. jpg | Deposition of Christ, 1507, drawing from Roman sarcophagi.

The crypt holds several Roman sarcophagi.

It is a true open-air museum, with Roman and medieval pillars, sarcophagi depicting the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the other the rape of Proserpina, a fourteenth-century sarcophagus and fragments of the façade of the Duomo.

Another example is archaeological uses such as imaging the contents of sarcophagi.

Silenus commonly figures in Roman bas-reliefs of the train of Dionysus, a subject for sarcophagi, embodying the transcendent promises of Dionysian cult.

Much of its clay was taken away by Empress Helena and other prominent Christians, to make sarcophagi.

Some historians hold that, during the persecutions, the Eucharist was celebrated among the tombs in the Catacombs of Rome, using the sarcophagi ( see sarcophagus ) of martyrs as altars on which to celebrate.

This work, a passionate, pagan, rhythmically-conceived bacchanalian dance of half-nude putti, was the forerunner of the great Cantoria, or singing tribune, at the Duomo in Florence on which Donatello worked intermittently from 1433 to 1440 and was inspired by ancient sarcophagi and Byzantine ivory chests.