loculus

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His work was finished by Siricius (A. D. 384-397), as proved by a second inscription below the loculus: "Siricius has completed the work and dressed the tomb of Cornelius in marble The paintings of the crypt, although they date from the Byzantine period, are of historical interest.

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  1. noun Variant of locule.

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  • If placed with a spindle on the mouth of a well, a metal tryblion would have been a serviceable loculus seal, ready to handle with its slender rod, because it was also a common weight and measure used at ancient water springs to determine small fluid volumes. —  American Chronicle
  • His work was finished by Siricius (A. D. 384-397), as proved by a second inscription below the loculus: "Siricius has completed the work and dressed the tomb of Cornelius in marble The paintings of the crypt, although they date from the Byzantine period, are of historical interest. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
  • We have descriptions of other relics of the same kind from the Roman Catacombs,--such as a marble slab bearing upon it the mark of the sole of a foot, with the words "In Deo" incised upon it at the one end, and at the other an inscription in Greek meaning "Januaria in God"; and a slab with a pair of footprints carved on it covered with sandals, well executed, which was placed by a devoted husband over the loculus or tomb of his wife. —  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
  • The symbol of a foot was carved on the marble slab that closed the loculus or tomb, to indicate that it was the purchased property of the person who reposed in it. —  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
  • Pious munificence provided him a loculus, a feretrum or shrine; built for him a wooden chapel, a stone temple, ever widening and growing by new pious gifts;--such the overflowing heart feels it a blessedness to solace itself by giving. —  Past and Present
 

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  1. Latin, little place, diminutive of locus, place.

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  1. Latin, a little place, a compartment, box, cell, diminutive of locus, a place: see locus.
 

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/ˈlɑkjuləs/
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