Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica

Vaults of Memory. The Jewish and Christian Catacombs of Rome
(124 words)

Curator

Olga Weiss.

Imprint

Chicago, Ill., USA, 1989. Leaflet, 4 pp., no illustrations, 28 × 21.6 cm. English.

Location

Spertus Museum (14 September–31 December 1989)

Description

A traveling exhibition on the shared symbols of Jewish, Christian, and pagan funerary art in the Roman catacombs. This publication lists objects from local collections that were added to the exhibition for its showing in Chicago. Basic and descriptive entries. 70 items.

main keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
CATACOMBS
PHOTOGRAPHS
ROME

minor keywords

Amulets
Italy
Oil lamps, ancient
Rome, catacombs

Other venues

Boston Public Library, Mass., USA (1985); Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy; National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., USA; University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA; Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, Israel

Catalog from other venue

#735 (Boston)

Cite this page
“Vaults of Memory. The Jewish and Christian Catacombs of Rome”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 09 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1041>
First published online: 2019



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