单词 | arcosolium |
释义 | arcosoliumn. An arched cell or niche, vaulted in semi-circular form, serving as a tomb in the Roman catacombs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > cell or niche in loculus1614 arcosolium1876 1876 E. Venables in Encycl. Brit. V. 209/2 In the table-tomb the recess above, essential for the introduction of the corpse, is square, while in the arcosolium, a form of later date, it is semi-circular. 1905 19th Cent. Nov. 785 Both the ‘table-tomb’ and the ‘arcosolium’ are as a rule confined to those many crypts..which opened out of the various galleries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1876 |
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