cippus

American  

[sip-uhs] / ˈsɪp əs /

noun

• cippi
  plural

1. (in classical architecture) a stele.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cippi
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of cippus

1615–25; < Latin: pillar, gravestone

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Example Sentences

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Jupiter, on a cippus with a curious relief of Claudia drawing the boat with the image of the Magna Mater up the Tiber.

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

Her weeping parents laid her in a cippus or avello between the two doors of S. Reparata, where the workmen, unable to finish their job before sunset, left the lid of her sepulcher unsoldered.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

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

Before the Gospel ambo is a fine mosaic candelabrum standing on a Roman cippus reversed, having an olive branch and birds sculptured on it.

From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration Vol 1, No. 9 1895 by Various

The most important of them represents a personage of consequence, apparently a Magus, who seems to be in the act of consecrating a sacred cippus, round which have been placed wreaths or chaplets.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

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

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

One of the cippi, above the staircase, is beautifully decorated with shells and mosaic.

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

The area is lined with stone cippi, placed at an interval of two and a half metres from one another.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

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

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