The answer is motif :) any reoccurring theme, pattern, idea, image etc. in a work applies to this.
for example, an artist that includes flowers in across all of their work (or a series of it) would be depicting a floral motif. I hope this helps!!
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I believe because it was for the Christian persecution that took place around A.D. 64, since a lot of Christians did not want to give up their faith, but did not want to be killed, they hid every Christian symbol (I guess this could be the right answer, hope I could help!)