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| Keywords: Agape feast 01.png The Symbolic Supper Early Christian catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter Paleochristian art In the Catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter Many cubiculi were painted by one artist whose power of invention was rather restricted He has but two subjects the story of Jonah and the Symbolic Supper Of this last there are four representations all reproduced from the same pattern of which I give an example the above picture A family consisting of father mother and children are sitting around a table upon which the ἰχθὺς or fish is served; the banquet is presided over by two mystic figures Irene or Peace on the left Agape or Love on the right The head of the family addresses Peace with these words Irene da calda and Love Agape misce mi The last words are easily understood Give me to drink the verb mescere being still used in the same sense in Tuscany where a wine-shop is sometimes called a mescita di vino The meaning of the word calda is not certain There is no doubt as Bötticher says that the ancients had something to correspond to our tea but the calda seems to have been more than an infusion; apparently it was a mixture of hot water wine and drugs that is a sort of punch which was drunk mostly in winter The names written in charcoal above the principal inscriptions in this illustration are those of Pomponio Leto and his academicians Rodolfo Lanciani 1892 p357 Picture and quote from the PD-old book Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Lanciani published by Houghton Mifflin and Company Boston and New York 1892 Source http //penelope uchicago edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/LANPAC/7 html PD-Art Catacombs of Saints Marcellinus and Peter Agape feast Eating in art Banquets in art Rodolfo Lanciani Original upload log wikitable - - 2006-02-11 00 29 25 567 × 378 50761 bytes Leinad-Z <nowiki></nowiki> Artworks missing infobox template | ||||
