cippus
[ sip-uhs ]
noun,plural cip·pi [sip-ahy, sip-ee]. /ˈsɪp aɪ, ˈsɪp i/.
(in classical architecture) a stele.
Origin of cippus
11615–25; <Latin: pillar, gravestone
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How to use cippus in a sentence
A very common form in Greco–Roman times is the cippus , a short column, like an altar.
How to Observe in Archaeology | VariousSepulchral cippus of Anaxicrates with an amphora carved in low relief.
A simple rectilinear coffin, of smooth Verona mandorlato, raised on four thick columns, and closed by a heavy cippus-cover.
New Italian sketches | John Addington SymondsOver the capital is an iron balcony encompassing a cippus, or meta, 32 feet high, supporting a blazing urn of brass gilt.
Old and New London | Walter ThornburyAnd the little cippus of a Roman girl who lived sixteen years and twenty-eight days.
The Spirit of Rome | Vernon Lee
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