UNL: AHIS 101 Exam 3 questions with verified answers 2025/2026

UNL: AHIS 101 Exam 3 questions with
verified answers 2025/2026

Catacomb of St. Callixtus, Rome, 4th Cent. - correct answer ✔✔-place where people were
buried and cremated

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Catacomb Art)



Catacomb of SS. Peter and Marcellinus, Rome, early 4th cent. - correct answer ✔✔-Late Antique
and Early Christian Art (Catacomb Art)



Good Shepherd - correct answer ✔✔-metaphor for Christ, not a representation

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Catacomb Art)



Jonah and the Whale - correct answer ✔✔-depicted from the Old Testament

-metaphor for the death and resurrection of Christ

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Catacomb Art)



Christ as Orpheus, Catacombs of Domatilla - correct answer ✔✔-image of Dionysus to represent
Christ

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Catacomb Art)



Good Shepherd Sarcophagus, from Cata. of Praetextus, Rome, late 4th cent. - correct answer
✔✔-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Catacomb Art)



Good Shepherd Statuette, from Rome, 300 - correct answer ✔✔-Late Antique and Early
Christian Art (Catacomb Art)

,Sarcophagus of Lucuis Junius Bassus, from Rome, AD 359 - correct answer ✔✔-earliest
depiction of Christ in heaven

-lots of recognizable bible scenes from Old Testament

-Dionysus referrenced again

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Catacomb Art)



Old St. Peter's Rome (Vatican), AD 320 - correct answer ✔✔-built by Constantine

-basilica plan: based on Roman basilica with atrium, narthex, transept

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Architecture)



Atrium - correct answer ✔✔open colonnaded courtyard



Narthex - correct answer ✔✔vestibule, entry hall/porch



Transept - correct answer ✔✔an area perpendicular to the nave between the nave and the
apse, forms a 'T' shape in the church



Santa Constanza, Rome, 350 - correct answer ✔✔-Centralized plan: building's elements are of
equal dimensions around the center (looks like a circle)

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Architecture)



Santa Constanza, Ambulatory Vault Mosaic - correct answer ✔✔-Ambulatory: place for walking,
usually around an apse or altar

-Vault mosaic: the mosaic (vine pattern) that is above the ambulatory

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Architecture)

, Christ Enthroned, Santa Pudenziana, Rome, 410-417 - correct answer ✔✔-apse mosaic

-Roman themes and crowns

-4 Evangelists symbols: Matthew=winged-man, Mark=lion, Luke=ox, John=eagle

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Architecture)



Nave, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, 430-440 - correct answer ✔✔-modern copper ceiling

-coffering

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Architecture)



Coffering - correct answer ✔✔series of sunken panels in a ceiling or vault



The Parting of Lot and Abraham - correct answer ✔✔-mosaic in Santa Maria Maggiore

-no longer representative, used to be directly narrative and tell stories

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Architecture)



Ivory Diptych of the Symmachi, 400 - correct answer ✔✔-bookcover

-priestess performing a sacrifice

-Late Antique and Early Christian Art (Minor Art)



Catacomb - correct answer ✔✔vast underground networks of chambers designed as cemeteries
for bury Christian dead



Lunette - correct answer ✔✔semicircular frame



Loculian - correct answer ✔✔architectural compartment or niche that houses a body