cippus

[ sip-uhs ]

noun

, plural cip·pi [sip, -ahy, sip, -ee].

1. (in classical architecture) a stele.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cippus¹

1615–25; < Latin: pillar, gravestone

Example Sentences

A very common form in Greco–Roman times is the cippus , a short column, like an altar.

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Sepulchral cippus of Anaxicrates with an amphora carved in low relief.

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A simple rectilinear coffin, of smooth Verona mandorlato, raised on four thick columns, and closed by a heavy cippus-cover.

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Over the capital is an iron balcony encompassing a cippus, or meta, 32 feet high, supporting a blazing urn of brass gilt.

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And the little cippus of a Roman girl who lived sixteen years and twenty-eight days.

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