Carvings on late Roman burial vaults or sarcophagi reveal that

A. rich non-Christian Romans preferred plain, unadorned monuments.
B. late Romans wanted only biblical themes and figures on these tombs.
C. the Christian belief in life after death made the sarcophagus a likely object for art.
D. Christians cremated the dead and thus did not use burial vaults.


C

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