Jews were not allowed to form anything that would have a likeness to humans or animals, because of fear that it would become worshiped. Whereas the Christians were able to use symbols such as: crosses, chi-rho’s, evangelist symbols, and fish. Being extravagant, the Christians built their catacombs from marble, while the Jews commissioned their tombs from soft limestone rocks. The tombs from the Jewish heritage were constructed with Doric columns and Ionic columns and the Egyptian cone-shaped roof. Instead, the Christian catacombs were underground and fused with arcosoliums, which served as chapels or safes. Christian and Jewish art, was inevitably
Jews were not allowed to form anything that would have a likeness to humans or animals, because of fear that it would become worshiped. Whereas the Christians were able to use symbols such as: crosses, chi-rho’s, evangelist symbols, and fish. Being extravagant, the Christians built their catacombs from marble, while the Jews commissioned their tombs from soft limestone rocks. The tombs from the Jewish heritage were constructed with Doric columns and Ionic columns and the Egyptian cone-shaped roof. Instead, the Christian catacombs were underground and fused with arcosoliums, which served as chapels or safes. Christian and Jewish art, was inevitably