PERSONIFICATIONS. – In general, early Christian art continued to make use of the personifications created by classical art.
For example, the personifications of the four seasons, such as those found in the 16th century on a ceiling of a Roman house on the Caelian Hill (Wilpert, *Fitture*, p. 35, fig. 2), and in a columbarium of the cemetery of Isola Sacra (G. Calza, *Il sepolcreto dell’Isola Sacra*,

Personifications – P. of Summer. Fresco from the 4th century in a cubicle of the cemetery Inter duas lauros – Rome.