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This shows a youthful Christ (cristvs) seated with a group of eight or more1
Saints to right and left of him. As on the chalice, they occupy high chairs with
a rounded back, most of them holding rolls, two extending their right hands.
The highest pair is inscribed petrvs and [pa]v[lvs]. The lowest four are
timotevs, Svstvs, SIMON, florvs—Roman Christians of the third or fourth
century2. The glass itself is assigned to the age of Pope Damasus(366—384A.d.)3.
Fig. 1009.
But the makers of these gilded glasses often gave new names to old designs,
and Prof. Burkitt4 rightly traces the type back to a ceiling in the Catacomb of
Petrus and Marcellinus. J. Wilpert holds that the ceiling in question dates from
the middle of s. iii and depicts the Judgment with the Saints as assessors5.
It is clear that we have here one element in the design of the Antioch chalice.
But that is not all. Prof. Burkitt0 very justly observes that the left arm of the
it), id. Sioria della arte cristiana nei prirni otto secoli delta chiesa Prato 1881 iii. 159 f. pi.
187, 4 (more complete) = my fig. 1009, C. M. Kaufmann Haudbuch der christlichen
Archdologie Paderborn 1913 p. 623 fig. 253, 7. On the vestments lettered j£ and J see
Garrucci Storm iii. 160.
1 Originally, perhaps, ten: the glass is broken away to right and left.
2 Timotheus was martyred in 301 (?), Sustus i.e. Xystus (Sixtus ii) in 258 a.d.
3 H. Vopel Die altchristlichen Goldgldser Freiburg i. B. 1899 p. 58.
4 Cp. Vopel op. cit. p. 58 n. r.
5 J. Wilpert Ein Cychts christologischer Gemalde aus der Katakombe der /iciligen
Petrus und Marcellinus Freiburg im Breisgau 1891 p. 17 pi. 1—2, 1, pi. 3—4, 1
G In The Cambridge Review 1923—1924 xlv. 254.
Saints to right and left of him. As on the chalice, they occupy high chairs with
a rounded back, most of them holding rolls, two extending their right hands.
The highest pair is inscribed petrvs and [pa]v[lvs]. The lowest four are
timotevs, Svstvs, SIMON, florvs—Roman Christians of the third or fourth
century2. The glass itself is assigned to the age of Pope Damasus(366—384A.d.)3.
Fig. 1009.
But the makers of these gilded glasses often gave new names to old designs,
and Prof. Burkitt4 rightly traces the type back to a ceiling in the Catacomb of
Petrus and Marcellinus. J. Wilpert holds that the ceiling in question dates from
the middle of s. iii and depicts the Judgment with the Saints as assessors5.
It is clear that we have here one element in the design of the Antioch chalice.
But that is not all. Prof. Burkitt0 very justly observes that the left arm of the
it), id. Sioria della arte cristiana nei prirni otto secoli delta chiesa Prato 1881 iii. 159 f. pi.
187, 4 (more complete) = my fig. 1009, C. M. Kaufmann Haudbuch der christlichen
Archdologie Paderborn 1913 p. 623 fig. 253, 7. On the vestments lettered j£ and J see
Garrucci Storm iii. 160.
1 Originally, perhaps, ten: the glass is broken away to right and left.
2 Timotheus was martyred in 301 (?), Sustus i.e. Xystus (Sixtus ii) in 258 a.d.
3 H. Vopel Die altchristlichen Goldgldser Freiburg i. B. 1899 p. 58.
4 Cp. Vopel op. cit. p. 58 n. r.
5 J. Wilpert Ein Cychts christologischer Gemalde aus der Katakombe der /iciligen
Petrus und Marcellinus Freiburg im Breisgau 1891 p. 17 pi. 1—2, 1, pi. 3—4, 1
G In The Cambridge Review 1923—1924 xlv. 254.