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The earliest Christian themed art was found in burial catacombs. These catacombs had openings called loculi, and carved rooms called cubicula. The ceiling of a cubiculum had painted vaults. The design of the paintings were a polygonal frame of the Ostian spoked-wheel design with lunettes(semicircular outlines/frames). Within the lunettes were portrait paintings of Jesus, or Jonah (the prophetic forerunner).

The egg is not as meaningful as the egg shape is.

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