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Clement of Alexandria, Eclogae Propheticae 56.

Otto Demus, The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice, (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1984); Johan J. Tikkanen, Die Genesismosaiken von S. Marco in Venedig und ihr Verhaltniss zu den Miniaturen der Cottonbibel, Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 17, (Helsinki, 1889; reprinted Soest: Davaco, 1972).

See Weitzmann and Kessler, The Cotton Genesis: British Library Codex Cotton Otho B. VI, The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint 1 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1986).

Kenan T. Erim, “Récentes découvertes à Aphrodisias en Carie, 1979–1980,” Revue archéologique (1982), p. 167, fig. 12; and Aphrodisias: City of Venus Aphrodite (New York: Facts on File, 1986), p. 122 (with a color photograph). Note that texts of the gnostic baptizing Mandaeans refer to a personified Sunday figure.

André Grabar, Christian Iconography: A Study of Its Origins, Bollingen Series 35:10 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ., 1968), p. 124.

Because the drawings of the men and the beds are quite different, Kraeling’s suggestion of a “before-and-after” scene is not persuasive (The Christian Building, pp. 59–60).

See Edward C. Whitaker, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1970); Willy Rordorf, Sunday: The History of the Day of Rest and Worship in the Christian Church (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1968); Jacob Vellian, ed., Studies on Syrian Baptismal Rites, Syrian Church Series 6 (Kottayam, India: C.M.S. Press, 1973); Josef A. Jungmann, The Early Liturgy: To the Time of Gregory the Great (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1959).

Then, as part of a litany, Thomas, who anointed the king with oil and baptized him, said, “come, mother of seven houses, whose rest was in the eighth house.” Translation from section 2 of the Syriac version by William Wright, Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (London: Williams and Norgate, 1871), p. 166.

See Franz J. Dölger, “Zur Symbolik des altchristlichen Taufhauses, I. Das Oktogon und die Symbolik der Achtzahl,” Antike und Christentum 4 (Münster: Aschendorf, 1934), pp. 153–187; Antonio Quacquarelli, L’ogdoade patristica e suoi riflessi nella liturgia e nei monumenti, Quaderni di Vetera Christianorum 7 (Bari: Adriatica, 1973).