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Definition of Cippi

Cippi
Cippus Cip"pus, n.; pl. Cippi. [L., stake, post.] A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. --Gwilt.

Meaning of Cippi from wikipedia

- A cippus (pl. cippi) was a low, round, or rectangular pedestal set up by the Ancient Romans for purposes such as a milestone or a boundary post. They...
- see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Cippi of Melqart are a pair of Phoenician marble cippi that were unearthed in Malta under undo****ented...
- principle. Archaeologists have recovered the commission's boundary stones (cippi), which largely name the three commissioners from 133–30 BC. The boundary...
- indistinguishable from a Heracles, appeared on its coins of the 4th century BCE. The Cippi of Melqart, found on Malta and dedicated to the god as an ex voto offering...
- 367 ****yrian lion weights Baal with Thunderbolt Bushel with ibex motifs Cippi of Melqart Code of Hammurabi Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II Gudea cylinders...
- of Eshmunazar II, the Tabnit sarcophagus, the Kilamuwa inscription, the Cippi of Melqart, and the other Byblian royal inscriptions. For later Punic: in...
- absolute power, expanded it in 80 BC. Several white marker stones (known as "cippi") commissioned by Claudius have been found in situ and several have been...
- Punic influence, however, remained vibrant on the islands with the famous Cippi of Melqart, pivotal in deciphering the Punic language, dedicated in the...
- seems to have been the guardian of boundaries as shown by the boundary cippi found in Bettona with the inscriptions tular Larna and tular larns. Along...
- earliest extant do****ents referencing these deities are three small stelae (cippi) found near ancient Lavinium shortly after World War II. They bear the inscription:...