arcosolia

• The arcosolia were dismantled, and the loculi violated one by one. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• The Christians scattered the relics of the first occupants, knocked down their busts, built arcosolia in the three recesses of the Greek cross, and honeycombed with loculi the side walls of the corridor. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• 154] It seems that the network of galleries, crossing one another at various angles, the skylights, the wells, the symmetry of the cubiculi and arcosolia, the number of loculi with which the sides of the galleries were honeycombed, affected the imagination of visitors even more than the pictures, the sarcophagi, and the epitaphs. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• The doorway admitting into it is on the level of the street, and gives access to a charnel-house with what would be termed _arcosolia_ in the catacombs, on each side, and the floor is humpy with graves. —  Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
• On the right-hand side of the nave opens a second charnel-house, called by the people "the Old Church," also with its _arcosolia_; there is also a door by which exit is obtained into a small cemetery overgrown with briars and thorns, and with the head-crosses reeling in all directions, and utterly neglected. —  Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

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