cippus

• A simple rectilinear coffin, of smooth Verona mandorlato_, raised on four thick columns, and closed by a heavy cippus-cover. —  New Italian sketches
• On passing through a wooden enclosure, I suddenly found myself in a long and handsome street, bordered by rows of tombs, of various dimensions and designs, from the simple cippus or altar, bearing the touching appeal of siste viator_, stop traveler, to the Patrician mausoleum with its long inscription. —  Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
• The entrance was then closed, and on the spot a cippus was erected--in popular estimation sometimes held to represent the soul--or a monument was set up on a scale proportionate to the importance of the family to which the dead man had belonged. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12)
• "Non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa? —  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
• And the little cippus of a Roman girl who lived sixteen years and twenty-eight days. —  The Spirit of Rome

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