cippus
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Origin of cippus
1615–25; < Latin: pillar, gravestone
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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
In Greece and Asia Minor, it will be in most cases a "drum" from some antique column, or a funerary cippus, abstracted by the peasantry from some neighbouring ruin.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
And the little cippus of a Roman girl who lived sixteen years and twenty-eight days.
From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon
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 Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman
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
Not the sight of illumined Rome, but the sight of a low and narrow bench, running along below the cippi and the sarcophagi, calmed his spirit.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
Ranged along the walls are a series of sarcophagi, cippi, and funeral altars, some of them very fine.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
One of the cippi, above the staircase, is beautifully decorated with shells and mosaic.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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 Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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