ICS BiblioSelect: Ancient Cemeteries/Catacombs (including site guides)

Additional Publications on the Catacombs to the year 2000 are at this link.

Allara, A.  “Corpus et cadaver, la “gestion” d’un nouveau corpus,” in F. Hinard, ed., La mort au quotidian dans le monde Romain, 69-79. Paris: De Voccard, 1995.

Apollonj Ghetti, Bruno Maria et al. Esplorazioni sotto la Confessione di San Pietro in Vaticano: esuguite negli anni 1940-1949. 2 vols: Vatican City, 1951.

Bassett, Steven, ed.  Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600. Leicester; New York: Leicester University Press, 1992.

Becker, Erich. Malta Sotterranea: Studies of Its Early Christian and Jewish Sepulchural Art. Malta: Midsea Books, 2009.

Bisconti, Fabrizio, Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, and Danilo Mazzoleni. The Christian Catacombs of Rome: History, Decoration, Inscriptions. Translated by Cristina C. Stella and Lori-Ann Touchette. Regensburg, Germany: Verlag Schnell and Steiner, 2002.

Bodel, John. “From Columbaria to Catacombs: Collective Burial in Pagan and Christian Rome,” in Commemorating the Dead: Text and Artifact in Context. Studies of Roman, Jewish and Christian Burials, Laurie Brink, O.P. and Deborah Green, eds. Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2008, pp. 177-242.

Bodel, John.  “Dealing with the Dead: Undertakers, Executioners and Potter’s Fields,” in Valerie Hope and Eireann Marshall, eds., Death and Disease in the Ancient City.  London: Routledge, 2000, 128-51.

Bodel, John. “Death on Display: Looking At Roman Funerals.” In B. Bergmann and C. Kondoleon, eds. The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Studies in the History of Art 56. Washington DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1999, 258-81.

Bodel, John.  “Graveyards and Groves. A Study of the Lex Lucerina.” American Journal of Ancient History 11 (1986), 1-33.

Bond, Sarah E.Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.

Bond, Sarah E. “Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity,” in Journal of Late Antiquity 6/1 (2013): 135-151.

Borg, Barbara E. Crisis and Ambition. Tombs and Burial Customs in third century CE Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Borg, Barbara E. “What’s in a Tomb? Roman Death Public and Private,” in Mors omnibus instat. Aspectos arqueologicos, epigrificos y rituals de la muerte en el Occidente Romano.  Madrid: Liceus, 2011, 51-78.

Bosio, Antonio. Roma Sotterranea, Rome, 1632-1634. Carroll, Maureen. Spirits of the Dead: Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Branham, Joan. R.  “Mapping Sacrifice on Bodies and Spaces in Late-Antique Judaism and Early Christianity,” in Bonna Wescoat and Robert G. Ousterhout, eds., Architecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 201-230.

Brink, Laurie and Deborah Green, eds.  Commemorating the Dead: Texts and Artifacts in Context, Studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian Burials.  Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2008.  

Cantino Wataghin, G.  “The ideology of urban burials," in G. P. Brogiolo and B. Ward-Perkins, eds., The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.  Leiden: Brill, 1999, 147-80.

Carroll, Maureen.  Spirits of the Dead. Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe. Oxford, 2006.

Cavadini, John. "Ambrose and Augustine: De Bono Mortis." In The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R.A. Markus. Eds. William E. Klingshirn and Mark Vessey. Anne Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1999, 232-249.

Elena Conde Guerri, Los “fossores” de Roma paleocristiana: studio iconográfico, epigráfico y social. Vatican City: Pontifical Institute of Christian Archeology, 1979.

Constable, Giles.   “The commemoration of the Dead in the Early Middle Ages,” in Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough, ed. Julia M. H. Smith. Leiden: Brill, 2000, 169-95.

Costambeys, Marios. “Burial Topography and the Power of the Church in Fifth- and Sixth-century Rome.” PBSR 69 (2001): 169-89.

Cumont, Franz. “Cierges et lampes sur les tombeaux.” In Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati. Città del Vaticano: Bibl. Apostolica Vaticana, 1946.

De Angelis d’Ossat, Gioacchino.  La geologia e le catacombe romane I: Catacombe sulle Vie Tiburtina, Nomentana, Salaria Vecchia, Salaria Nuova e Flaminia. Roma: Scuola tipografica Pio X, 1932.

Deckers, J. “Wie genau ist eine Katakombe zu datieren? Das Beispiel SS. Marcellino e Pietro.” In Memoriam sanctorum venerantes. Miscellanea in onore di Monsignor Victor Saxer. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto, 1991, 217-38.

De Maria, Lorenza.  “L’esodo delle iscrizioni cristiane dalle catacomb tra atteggiamenti regliose e collezionismo.” In D. Mazzoleni ed., Raffaele Fabretti, archeologo ed erudito: atti della giornata di studi, 24 maggio 2003.  Città del Vaticano: Pontificio istituto di archeologia Cristiana, 2006, 15-23.

Denzey Lewis, Nicola.  “Popular Christianity and Lived Religion in Late Antique Rome: Seeing Magic in the Catacombs,” in Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World, ed. Lucy Grig.  London: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 257-276.

Denzey Lewis, Nicola.  "Reinterpreting ‘Pagans’ and ‘Christians’ from Rome’s Late Antique Mortuary Evidence,” in Pagans and Christians in Fourth-Century Rome, eds. Michele Salzman, Marianne Saghy and ‎Rita Lizzi Testa. London: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 273-290.

Denzey Lewis, Nicola. The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.

De Rossi, Giovanni Battista. La Roma sotterranea cristiana descritta ed illustrata, 3 vols. Rome: Cromo-litografia Pontificia, 1864, 1867, 1877.

Ditchfield, Simon. “Text Before Trowel: Antonio Bosio’s Roma Sotterranea Revisited.” In R. N. Swanson, ed. The Church Retrospective. Studies in Church History 33 (1997), 343-60.

Divjak, Johannes and Wolfgang Wischmeyer, eds. Das Kalenderhandbuch von 354 Der Chronograph des Filocalus, Band 2 - Der Textteil. Vienna: Holzhausen, 2014.

Duval, Yves.  Auprès des saints corps et l’âme: l'inhumation "ad sanctos" dans la chrétienté d'Orient et d'Occident du IIIe au VIIe siècle. Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1988.

Dyggve, E.  “L’Origine del cimitero entro la città.” Atti dello VIII Congresso internazionale di studi bizantini, Palermo 3-10 aprile 1951. Vol. 2. Rome: Associazione nazionale per gli studi bizantini, 1953, 138-41.

Edwards, Catherine. Death in Ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Erasmo, Mario.  “Among the Dead in Ancient Rome.” Mortality 6/1 (2001): 31-43.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo and Jean Guyon, eds. Origine delle catacombe romane. Atti della giornata tematica dei seminari di archeologia cristiana (Roma, 21 marzo 2005). Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2006.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo. “Katakombe,” in Reallexikon fur Antike und Christentum, XX, Stuttgart, 2004, cc. 342–422.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo. "Elementi di trasformazione dello spazio funerario tra tarda antichità ed
altomedioevo," in Uomo e spazio nell’alto medioevo, Settimane CISAM L (Spoleto, 4-8 aprile
2002), Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, Spoleto 2003, 921-969.

FIocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo. “Basilica Marci, coemeterium Marci, basilica coemeterii Balbinae: A proposito della nuova basilica circiforme della via Ardeatina e della funzione funeraria delle chiese ‘a deambulatorio’ del suburbia romano,” in Ecclesiae Urbis.  Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2002, 1175-201.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo.  Strutture funerarie ed edifici di culto paleocristiani di Poma dal IV al VI secolo. Vatican City, 2001.  

Fiocchi Nicolai, V., F. Bisconti, and D. Mazzoleni. The Christian Catacombs of Rome. History, Decoration, Inscriptions. Regensburg, Schnell and Steiner, 1998.

Frey, J. B. “L’ancienneté des catacombs juives à Rome.” Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia 7 (1936): 185–98.

Gaston, Robert W.  "British Travellers and Scholars in the Roman Catacombs 1450-1900." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 46 (1983): 144-65.

Ghilardi, Massimiliano.   “Le catacombe di Roma nel medioevo: Riflessioni recenti e prospettive di ricerca.” In Massimiliano Ghilardi, Subterranea Civitas: Quattro studi sulle catacombe romane dal medioevo all’età moderna.  Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 2003, 17-41.

Janssens, Jos. "I manoscritti di Philips van Winghe (1560-1592) e Jean l’Heureux (Macarius) (1540-1614) e la Compagnia di Gesu’," in Gregorianum (91.3) 2010, 574-582.

Johnson, Mark, J. The Roman Imperial Mausoleum in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Johnson, Mark. “Pagan-Christian Burial Practices of the Fourth Century: Shared Tombs?” JECS 5/1 (1997): 37–59.

Lambert, C.  “Le sepulture in urbe nella norma e nella prassi (tarda antichita – alto medioevo),” in L. Paroli, ed., L’Italia centro-settentrionale in età longobarda.  Firenze: All'Insegna del Giglio, 1997, 285-93.

Laurenzi, Elsa. The Jewish Catacombs: The Jewish Community of Ancient Rome and Its Funerary Traditions. Rome: Gangemi, 2011.

Mancinelli, D., and R. Vargiu.  “Gli inumati nella regione I della catacomba dei SS. Marcellino e Pietro.” RACr 70 (1994): 43–60.

Mancinelli, Fabrizio. Catacombs and Basilicas: The Early Christians in Rome, trans. Carol Wasserman. Florence: Scala, 1981.

Marcelli, M.  “Su alcune tombe tardo-artiche di Roma: nota preliminare.” Archeologia Medievale 16 (1989): 525-40.

Marucchi, Orazio.  Le catacombe Romane. Opera Postuma. Rome: La libreria dello Stato, 1932.

Messineo, Gaetano.  “Dalle necropolis del suburbium settentrionale di Roma,” in A. Pellegrino, ed., Dalle Necropoli di Ostia. Riti ed Usi Funerari.  Ostia Antica, Castello di Giulio II, Marzo 1998 - Luglio 1999.  Rome: Soprintendenza archeologica di Ostia, 1999, 110-27.

Morin, L. “La basilique circiforme et ses antecedents.” EMC 34 (1990): 263-77.

Müller, N. Die jüdische Katakombe am Monteverde zu Rom. Leipzig, 1912.

Nestori, Aldo. Repertorio topografico delle pitture delle catacombe romane. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1993.

Nieddu, Anna Maria. La Basilica Apostolorum sulla via Appia e l’area cimiteriale circostante. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2009.

Nuzzo, Donatella. Tipologia sepolcrale delle catacombe romane. I cimiteri ipogei delle vie Ostiense, Ardeatina, e Appia (British Archaeological Reports, International Series 905). Oxford: Archeopress, 2000.

Oryshkevich, Irina. “Roma Sotterranea and the Biogenesis of New Jerusalem.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 55/56 (2009): 174-81.

Oryshkevich, Irina Taissa. “The History of the Roman Catacombs from the Age of Constantine to the Renaissance.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2003.

Osborne, John. "The Roman Catacombs in the Middle Ages." PBSR 53 (1985): 278-328.

Osborne, John.  “Death and Burial in Sixth-Century Rome.” Classical Views (Echos du Monde Classique) 28 n.s. 3 (1984): 291-299.

Osborne, John. “From Turtura to Alfanus: Funerary Monuments in Early Medieval Rome.” RACAR/Canadian Art Review 9/1 (1982): 3-8.

Patterson, John. R. “On the Margins of the City of Rome.” In Valerie M. Hope and Eireann Marshall eds. Death and Disease in the Ancient City. London; New York: Routledge, 2000, 84-103.

Pergola, Philippe and Palmira M. Barbini. Le catacombe romane. Storia e topografia. Rome: Carocci, 1997.

Pergola, Philippe. “Mensores Frumentarii Christiani et Annone à la fin de l’Antiquité (Relecture d’un Cycle de Peintures),” in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 66 (1990), pp. 167-84.

Pergola, Philippe. “La region dite des ‘Flavii Aurelii’ dans la catacombe de Domitille,” in Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité 95 (1983), pp. 183-248.

Pergola, Philippe. “Il praedium Domitillae sulla via Ardeatina: Analisi storico-topografica delle testimonianze pagane fino alla metà del III sec. d.C,” in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 55 (1979), pp. 313-35.

Polonyi, Andrea.  Wenn mit Katakombenheilige aus Rom Neue Traditionen begründet werden. Studien zur Theologie und Geschichte 14. St. Ottilien, 1998.

Prowse, T., H.P. Schwarcz, S. Saunders, R. Macchiarelli, and L. Bondioli.  “Isotopic Paleodiet Studies of Skeletons from the Imperial Roman-age Cemetery of Isola Sacra, Rome, Italy.” Journal of Archaeological Science 31/3 (2004): 259-72.

Rebillard, Éric. The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity, Cornell Studies in Classical Philology 59, trans. E. T. Rawlings & J. Routier-Pucci. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Rebillard, Éric. Religion et sepulture. L’Église, les vivants, et les morts dans l’antiquité tardive. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2003.

Rebillard, Éric.  “Les formes de l’assistance funéraire dans l’Empire romain et leur evolution dans l’antiquité tardive.” Antiquité tardive 7 (1999): 280-282.

Rebillard, Éric. “KOIMHTHRION et COEMETERIUM: tombe, tombe sainte, nécropole,” in Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité 105 (1993), 975-1001.

Rush, Alfred C. Death and Burial in Christian Antiquity. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1941.

Rush, A. C. Death and Burial in Christian Antiquity. Diss. Catholic University of America. Washington D.C., 1941.

Rutgers, L. V. “Catacombs and Health in Christian Rome.” In Christian Laes, Katariina Mustakallio, and Ville Vuolanto, eds., Children and Family in Late Antiquity: Life, Death and Interaction.  Leuven: Peeters, 2015, 35-52.

Rutgers, Leonard V., Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jong, Constance van der Linde, Jelle Prins, “Further Radiocarbon Dates from the Catacombs of St. Callixtus in Rome.”
Radiocarbon 49/3 (2007): 1221-1229.

Rutgers, Leonard V., Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jong, “Radiocarbon Dating from the Catacombs of Saint Callixtus at Rome,].” Radiocarbon 47 no. 3 (2007): 395-400.

Rutgers, L. V. “Reflections on the Demography of the Jewish Community in Ancient Rome.” In M. Ghirlardi and C. Goddard, Les cités de L’Italie tardo-antique (IV-VI siècles). Rome: Ecole Française de Rome, 2006, 345-58.

Rutgers, Leonard V., Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jong, Imogen Poole, “Jewish Inspiration of Christian Catacombs.” Nature Vol. 436 (21 July 2005): 339.

Rutgers, L. V. “Nuovi dati sulla demografia della comunità giudaica di Roma.” In G. Lacerenza, ed., Hebraica hereditas. Studi in onore di Cesare Colafemmina.  Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli 2005, 237-54.

Rutgers, Leonard V. “Radiocarbon Dates from the Jewish Catacombs of Rome.” Radiocarbon 44/2 (2002): 541-547.

Rutgers, Leonard V. Subterranean Rome: In Search of the Roots of Christianity in the Catacombs of the Eternal City. Leuven: Peeters, 2000.

Rutgers, Leonard V.  The Jews in Late Ancient Rome: Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world 12. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

Snively, C. S. "Old Rome and New Constantinople. The Development of Late Antique Cemeteries.” In R. Harreither et al, eds, Fruhes Christentum zwischen Rom und Konstantinopel: Acta Congressus internationalis XIV archaeologiae christianae: Vindobonae 19.-26.9.1999.  Vatican City: Pontificio istituto di archeologia Cristiana, 2006, 711-16

Stevenson, John. The Catacombs: Rediscovered Monuments of Early Christianity. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Torelli, Mario.  “Le basiliche circiformi di Roma: iconografia, funzione, simbolo,” in G. Senna Chiesa and E. A. Arslan, eds., Felix Temporis Reparatio. Atti del convegno archeologico internazionale ‘Milano capitale dell’impero romano,’ . Milan: Edizione ET, 1992, 203-217.

Verhoeven, M., L. Bosman, H. Van Asperen, eds. Monuments & Memory: Christian Cult Buildings and Constructions of the Past. Essays in honour of Sible de Blaauw. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016.

Vismara, Cinzia.  "Le catacombe ebraiche di Roma venticinque anni dopo. Palinodie, revisioni, nuove linee di ricerca," in Per Gabriella. Studi in ricordo di Gabriella Braga, eds. Marco Palma and Cinzia Vismara.  Cassino (Frosinone): Università degli studi di Cassino, 2013, pp.  1843-1926.

Vismara, Cinzia. “I cimiteri ebraici di Roma” in Società romana e impero tardoantico II. Roma. Politica, economia, paesaggio urbano, Andrea Giardina, ed. Rome: Laterza, 1986, pp. 351-92; 490-503.

Walker, Susan. Memorials to the Roman Dead. London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1985.

Webb, Matilda. The Churches and Catacombs of Early Christian Rome: A Comprehensive Guide. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.

Yasin, Ann Marie. “Funerary Monuments and Collective Identity: From Roman Family to Christian Community.” Art Bulletin 87/3 (2005): 433-57.

Zimmermann, Norbert. “Werkstattgruppen römischer Katakombenmalerei,“ in Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum Ergänzungsband 35. Münster, Westfalen: Aschendorff Verlag, 2002.

Catacombs: Site Studies and Guides

Baruffa, Antonio. The Catacombs of St. Callixtus: History, Archaeology, Faith, trans. William Purdy. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1993.

Ben Lazreg, Nejib, Susan Stevens, Lea Stirling and Jennifer Moore.  "Roman and Early Christian burial complex at Leptiminus (Lamta): second notice," in Journal of Roman Archaeology 19 (2006) 347-368.

Bertoniere, Gabriel. The cult center of the Martyr Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1995.

Blanchard, P., Castex, D., Coquerelle, M., Giuliani, R., Ricciardi, M.  "A Mass Grave from the Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus in Rome, Second–Third Century AD." Antiquity 3/14 (2007): 989–998.

Bonacasa Carra, Rosa Maria, Nadia Cavallaro, and Pietro Marescalchi. La catacomba di Porta d'Ossuna a Palermo. Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2001.

Carletti, Carlo, and Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai. La Catacomba di S. Cristina in Bolsena. Bari: Edipuglia, 1989.

Carletti, Sandro. Guida della Catacomba di San Callisto. Vatican City, 1984.

Carletti, Sandro. Guide to the Catacombs of Priscilla, trans. A. Mulhern. Vatican City, 1982.

Chadwick, Henry.  “St Peter and St. Paul in Rome: The Problem of the Memoria Apostolorum ad Catacumbas,” JTS 8 (1957): 31-52.

Cipollone, Valeria. Le catacombe di Chiusi. Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2000.

Dalmiglio, Paolo. La catacomba ad decimum della Via Latina. Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2013.

Deckers, Johannes G., et al. Die Katakombe “Commodilla:”Repertorium der Malereien. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1994.

Deckers, Johannes G., et al. Die Katakombe "Anonima di Via Anapo": Repertorium der Malereien, 2 vols. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1991.

Deckers, Johannes G., et al. Die Katakombe "Santi Marcellino e Pietro": Repertorium der malereien, 3 vols. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1987.

Delehaye, Hippolyte. “Le sanctuaire des Apôtres sur la Voie Appienne,” in Analecta Bollandiana 45 (1927): 297-310.

Dello Russo, Jessica.  “The Monteverde Jewish Catacombs on the via Portuense.” Roma Subterranea Judaica 4 (2010): 1-37.

Dello Russo, Jessica.  “The Discovery and Exploration of the Jewish Catacomb of the Vigna Randanini in Rome: Records, Research, and Excavations through 1895.” Roma Subterranea Judaica 5 (2011): 1-24.

DeMarco Angelo.  The Tomb of Saint Peter: A Representative and Annotated Bibliography of the Excavations. Leiden: Brill, 1964.

Di Mento, Marzia, and Daniela Rossi, eds. La catacomba ebraica di Monteverde: vecchi dati e nuove scoperte. Rome: Presidenza del Consiglio Provinciale, 2013.

Fasola, Umberto. “Le due catacombe ebraiche di Villa Torlonia.” RAC 52 (1976): 7-62.

Fasola, Umberto. “Scoperta di nuovi dati monumentali per lo studio dell’area prima callistiana.” RAC 59 (1983): 257-73.

Fasola, Umberto M. Le catacombe di S. Gennaro a Capodimonte. Rome: Editalia, 1974.

Fasola, Umberto M. The catacombs of Domitilla and the Basilica of the martyrs Nereus and Achilleus, trans. Christopher S. Houston and Fausto Barbarito. Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2011.

Ferrua, Antonio. The Basilica and Catacomb of Saint Sebastian. Bari: Edipuglia, 1990.

Ferrua, Antonio. The Unknown Catacomb. A Unique Discovery of Early Christian Art, trans. I. Inglis. New Lanark, Scotland: Geddes and Grosset, 1991.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo and Monica Ricciardi. La catacomba di S. Vittoria a Monteleone Sabino (Trebula Mutuesca). Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2003.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo. La Catacomba di S. Teodora a Rignano Flaminio. Bari: Edipuglia, 1995.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo. La catacomba di S. Savanilla di Nepi. Bari: Edipuglia, 1992.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo, ed.  Le Catacombe del Lazio.  Ambiente, arte e cultura delle prime comunità cristiane.  Padova: Esedra, 2006. 

Ghilardi, Massimiliano. “ ‘Del cimiterio degli antichi hebrei’: La catacomba ebraica di Monteverde nel IV centenario della scoperta.” Studi Romani 51/1-2 (2003): 27-29.

Giuliani, Raffaella. The Catacombs of SS. Marcelllino e Pietro. Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2015.

Guyon, Jean. Le cimetière aux deux lauriers. Recherches sur les catacombes romaines, Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 264. Rome: École française de Rome, 1987.

Laurenzi, Elsa. La catacomba ebraica di Vigna Randanini. Rome: Gangemi, 2013.

Rea, Rossella. L'ipogeo di Trebio Giusto sulla via Latina: Scavi e restauri. Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2004.

Reekmans, Louis. “L’oeuvre du pape Damase dans le complexe de Gaius à la catacomb de S. Callixte.” In Saecularia Damasiana : atti del Convegno internazionale per il XVI centenario della morte di papa Damaso I (11-12-384-10/12-12-1984).  Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1986, 259-289.

Reekmans, Louis. La tombe du pape Corneille et sa région cémétériale. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1964.

M. Sgarlata, D. Tanasi, ed.  Koimesis. Recenti esplorazioni nelle catacombe siracusane e maltesi.   Sioux City: Parnassos Press, 2016.

Sgarlata, Mariarita. San Giovanni a Siracusa. Vatican City: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2004.

Spera, Lucrezia. Il complesso di Pretestato (Roma Sotterranea Cristiana 12). Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2004.

Styger, Paul. “Scavi a S. Sebastiano. Scoperta di una memoria degli Apostoli Pietro e Paolo e del corpo di S. Fabiano Martire,” in Römische Quartalschrift (1915): 73-110.

Styger, Paul. “L’origine del cimitero di S. Callisto sull’Appia,” in Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 4 (1925-1926), 91-153.

Thümmel, Hans Georg.  Die Memorien für Petrus und Paulus in Rom: Die archäologischen Denkmähler und die literarischen Tradition. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 76. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999.

Tolotti, Francesco. “Ricerca dei luoghi venerati nella spelunca magna di Pretestato,” RAC 53 (1977), 58-87.

Tolotti, Francesco.  Il cimitero di Priscilla.  Studio di topografia e architettura.  Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1970.

Tolotti, Francesco.  Memorie degli apostoli in Catacumbas: rilievo critico della Memoria e della Basilica Apostolorum al III miglio della Via Appia. Collezione “Amici delle catacombe,” 19. Vatican City, 1953.

Toynbee, J. M. C.  “The Shrine of St. Peter’s And Its Setting.” JRS 43 (1953): 1-26.

Toynbee, J. M. C. and J. Ward-Perkins. The Shrine of St. Peter and the Vatican Excavations. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1965.

Tronzo, William, ed. Saint Peter’s in the Vatican. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Tronzo, William. The Via Latina Catacomb: Imitation and Discontinuity in Fourth-Century Roman Painting. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.

Wurmbrand Stuppach, K. “Die Jagerkatakombe an der via Appia.” Belvedere 3 (1927): 289-294.

Wilpert, Joseph.  La cripta dei papi e la cappella di Santa Cecilia nel cimitero di Callisto. Rome, 1910.

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