2-750-438 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Wall paintings in a Christian tomb, Sart, Turkey, (1928). '4th Century A.D...Paintings on the E. and N. wall of a Christian tomb on the plain of Sardis [Sart], Asia Minor. The tomb in question is of the chamber type with a waggon vault'. Plate XXXIX, figs 90-91, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]