• 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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  • 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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    6miles Sistine Chapel    The Sistine Chapel (/ˈsɪstiːn/ SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel...
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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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  • old one, but according to Georg Wissowa the location of Nenia's shrine (sacellum) outside the center of early Rome indicates that she didn't belong to the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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