respects similar. Thus it appears that this system unites the two methods of depositing the body which, as already stated, are usually employed in this neighbourhood, namely, the long and shallow loculus with a raised floor, upon which the body was laid parallel to the side of the room, and the narrow and deep loculus in which it was laid at right angles to the side of the

room.

But

This room (with the exception of a deep loculus opening to some smaller ones which are seen in the North-West corner,) contains no other receptacle. in the middle of its South and of its East side is a narrow door', each leading to a room about eight feet square, and containing (as the plan shews) three deep loculi on each of three sides. But these two rooms differ in other respects. The Southern room, the floor of which is two feet lower than that of the great room, is shewn in section at the right end of fig. 14. This section also exhibits an elevation of the eastern side of the room; and as the southern and eastern sides of the room are arranged in exactly the same manner, the section of the southern side, compared with the elevation of the eastern which is close to it, completely explains the forms and depths of the loculi. The lower ones, three on a side, are similar in form and dimension to those of the great room. Above them is an arched receptacle of the same depth as those of the great room, but it is lower, and has no deep loculi pierced at its back. The room itself is only six feet six inches high.

The Eastern room D, is arranged in a totally different manner as far as its upper loculi are concerned;

14'. 8" high, 1'. 6′′ wide.

but as its dimensions are about the same as those of the Southern room C, and its lower loculi arranged in the same manner, three on a side, the two rooms appear exactly alike on the plan2.

But the section of the Eastern room (fig. 1) shews that at the level of the upper loculi the sides of the room are set back 3 two feet nine inches, so as to allow space for four loculi instead of three on each side, in addition to the space in front, which may be supposed also to have been intended for the reception of bodies laid parallel to the walls, as in the arched recesses of the upper tier in the rooms already described.

It remains only to describe the lower floor, of which the plan is shewn in dotted lines in fig. 13, and the section in fig. 12. In the North-east corner of the great room B, a staircase leads down to a small vestibule E, which has more of architectural arrangement about it than any other apartment of this catacomb; for there is a sunk recess on three of its sides, headed by a segmental arch which reaches to the top of the room, and the ceiling springs from these arches in a slightly domical form, every other apartment in the catacomb being flatroofed. These recesses are solely intended for ornament, for they are too shallow and too small to receive bodies, being only a foot in depth and four feet long, and the apartment itself including them is but six feet across, and about five feet high.

*The loculi of the South room are 1. 4" wide, 8'. 1" deep, and 3′. 3′′ high, and those of the West room 1'. 10" wide, 8.2 deep, and 2.6" high.

The section only shews this setting back on the eastern side of the room, but the same contrivance is adopted

on the North and on the South sides of the room, so that there are four loculi in the upper tier of each side, making, in addition to those below, twenty-one loculi in this apartment. The floor of the upper tier is only 3'. 5" above the floor of the room.

The north and south sides have each one op communicating with a deep narrow loculus. Its side has a low door, only two feet six high, which to the sepulchral chamber F. The floor of the chral chamber is two feet six inches below the s this door, and similarly the floor of the vestibule i feet three inches below the sill of its door of entra

In this sepulchral chamber another mode of bution is adopted, for there is but one tier of The chamber (eight feet ten inches square, an feet two inches high), has on each of three sid arched recess (G, H) forming a loculus of the s kind, the bottom of which is two feet six inches the floor of the chamber. The back of each is p with three or with four deep narrow loculi, as first chamber B.

The eastern arch A, has also, as the plan sepulchral recesses pierced on its north and south

This lower story appears to be a complete sep in itself, having its own vestibule. It is very well observation, that of the four principal chambers catacomb no two are arranged precisely in the manner, and that great pains appear to have been to distribute the loculi with regard to symmet variety in design. Whether the arched recesses upper tiers were intended for the reception of bo for sarcophagi it is difficult to say, but they app short for sarcophagi.

The staircase in the south-western corner principal apartment B, leads down to an uni excavation.