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With geographic coverage ranging from Ireland to Syria and from France and the Rhineland to Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, and a temporal spread from early urban to late rural antiquity that spans 200-650 CE, this comprehensive, three-volume encyclopedia covers the remarkable range of stylistic and iconographic traditions incorporated into early Christian art. The signed alphabetical entries from contributors trained as archaeologists, art historians, historians, epigraphers, or theologians cover a wealth of objects--sarcophagi, mosaics, frescoes, ivories, pottery, glass, metalwork, textiles, architecture, sculpture, papyri, parchment, stone, and wood. Despite the erudition of the authors and their subjects, no specialized training on the part of readers is needed to understand these clarifying entries.