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Coemeterium (Latin for "cemetery", from the
Ancient Gr****, κοιμητήριον,
koimeterion = "bedroom,
resting place") was
originally a free-standing, multi-roomed...
- pontificate: Eusebius's
history of the
early Church and an
inscription in the
Coemeterium Callisti that
names the Pope.
Urban ascended to the
papacy in 222, the...
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deaths of the martyrs. The pope also had a new burial-place, the
Cœmeterium Novellœ on the Via
Salaria (opposite the
Catacomb of St. Priscilla), laid...
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rather than
containing the
actual body and
therefore is not a tomb.
Coemeterium Crypts – often,
though not always, for interment;
similar to
burial vaults...
- Fuga was
himself a
member of this
confraternity which possessed its own
coemeterium on the
banks of the Tiber,
since lost to the nineteenth-century construction...
- to the 1538 at San
Lorenzo in Damaso.
Burials were
performed in
their coemeterium, once
sited on the
banks of the
Tiber adjacent to the church.
First built...
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cemetery Prison cemetery Lists of
cemeteries by
country Catacomb Churchyard Coemeterium Columbarium Crypt Grave field M****
grave Necropolis Ossuary Tomb Tumulus...
- ("Subterranean Rome"; 1632),
although the
author mixed it up with the
nearby Coemeterium maius ("Greater Catacomb").
During the 18th
century the
Catacomb of St...
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called a
sleeping or
falling asleep (Gr**** κοίμησις;
whence κοιμητήριον >
coemetērium > cemetery, a
place of sleeping; Latin: dormire, to sleep). A prominent...
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Lorenzo Ghiberti. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1956 "Mensa-
coemeterium-martyium."
Cahiers archeologiques 11 (1960): 15–40. The architecture...
