cippus
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cippi
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Origin of cippus
1615–25; < Latin: pillar, gravestone
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A very common form in Greco–Roman times is the cippus , a short column, like an altar.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
The cippus represented in the illustration below is manifestly the work of Caligula, because mention is made on it of his accession to the throne.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
A cippus stands at the corner to do the double duty of defining the limits of the basilica, and to keep the wheels of wagons from running up on the steps.
From A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
This cippus supported a statue raised in honor of Titus Sennius Sollemnis, a Viducassian by birth, and one of the high priests of the town.
From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner
French savants here examine the ruins of the theatre and the immense Roman reservoirs in the hillside, and take "squeezes" of inscriptions marked upon the antique altar, column or cippus.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
The local museum contains a valuable and important collection of objects from the necropolis, including some specially fine bucchero, sepulchral urns of travertine, alabaster and terra-cotta, painted vases, stone cippi with reliefs, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Ranged along the walls are a series of sarcophagi, cippi, and funeral altars, some of them very fine.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
The other cippi found in the ustrinum mention four other children of Germanicus, among them Caius Cæsar, the lovely child who was so much beloved by Augustus,185 and so deeply regretted by him.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Their cippi were found broken into fragments, their names half erased, and their ashes scattered to the four winds.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
At regular intervals pale streaks of light lay across the pavement, falling through the windows, which, from among the tombstones, the cippi, and the pagan sarcophagi, look down upon Rome.
From The Saint by William Roscoe Thayer
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