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- noun Alternative form of
hypogeum .
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The second compartment contains a diminutive hypogaeum (B).
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The hypogaeum was of very unusual form, consisting of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Domitian or thereabouts, and the fact that the hypogaeum itself belongs to the earliest age of Christianity, is sufficient to enable us to feel certain that we have here the tomb of the famous consul.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In the Jewish hypogaeum and subterranean cell at Rome, was little observable beside the variety of lamps and frequent draughts of Anthony and Jerome we meet with thigh-bones and death’s-heads; but the cemeterial cells of ancient
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