In ancient Roman religion, a sacellum is a small shrine. The word is a diminutive from sacrum (neuter of sacer, "belonging to a god"). The numerous sacella...
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Miseno (section The sacellum of the Augustales)
position giving maximum visibility of the port basin and the Gulf. The sacellum of the Augustales is also half submerged due to ground water. It was discovered...
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Indothais sacellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. MolluscaBase (2018)...
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a name which appears to signify "willingness". She had a temple, the Sacellum Volupiae, on the Via Nova, by the Porta Romana. Sacrifices were offered...
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6miles Sistine Chapel The Sistine Chapel (/ˈsɪstiːn/ SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel...
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under the statue of the goddess Roma at the Altare della Patria. It is a sacellum dedicated to the Italian soldiers killed and missing during war. It is...
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These include a sanctuary, with remains of a paved square, a complex sacellum ("holy enclosure") and a tholos. This, after another gate, is followed...
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Glossary of ancient Roman religion (section sacellum)
defining a sacellum in its entirety as equivalent to a cella, which is specifically an enclosed space, and the latter insisting that a sacellum had no roof...
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ascertained the presence of an early Christian sacellum from the 4th century in the cloisters, now called the sacellum of St. Benedict, however, the construction...
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podium and a tetrastyle (four-columned) pronaos (porch). Another shrine (sacellum) dedicated to Jupiter, Juno Regina and Minerva was the Capitolium Vetus...
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