Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cinerarium

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CINERA'RIUM. A niche in a tomb, adapted for the reception of a large cinerary urn, or a sarcophagus, as contradistinguished from columbarium, which was of smaller dimensions, and only formed to receive a pair of jars (ollae). (Inscript. ap. Grut. 850. 10. Ap. Fabrett. 16. 71. CALPURNIA EMIT COLUMBARIA N. IV. OLLAS. N. VIII. ET CINERARIUM MEDIANUM.) The illustration (Cinerarium/1.1), which represents one side of a sepulchral chamber, as it appeared when first excavated, presents an arrangement similar to that set forth by the preceding inscription, with two columbaria at bottom, over which are the same number of cinerary niches for urns, and a larger one in the centre (cinerarium medianum), with its sarcophagus.

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  Cinerarium/1.1