Loculus (architecture)
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Loculus (Latin, "little place"), plural loculi, is an architectural compartment or niche that houses a body, as in a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment. In classical antiquity, the mouth of the loculus might be closed with a slab,[1] plain, as in the Catacombs of Rome, or sculptural, as in the family tombs of ancient Palmyra.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Kokh (tomb): sometimes translated as "loculus"
- Arcosolium: another niche-like tomb
- Glossary of architecture
References
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- ^ Katherine M. D. Dunbabin, The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 254.
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