Definition of Sacellum. Meaning of Sacellum. Synonyms of Sacellum

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Definition of Sacellum

Sacellum
Sacellum Sa*cel"lum, n.; pl. Sacella. [L., dim. of sacrum a sacred place.] (a) (Rom. Antiq.) An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity. (b) (Eccl.) A small monumental chapel in a church. --Shipley.

Meaning of Sacellum from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 6miles Sistine Chapel    The Sistine Chapel (/ˌsɪsˈtiːn ˈtʃæpəl/; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel...
- 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...
- Indothais sacellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. MolluscaBase (2018)...
- podium and a tetrastyle (four-columned) pronaos (porch). Another shrine (sacellum) dedicated to Jupiter, Juno Regina and Minerva was the Capitolium Vetus...
- These include a sanctuary, with remains of a paved square, a complex sacellum ("holy enclosure") and a tholos. This, after another gate, is followed...
- The temple of Bellona is a temple or sacellum dedicated to the Italic goddess Bellona (possibly here syncretised with Magna Mater) in Ostia Antica. It...
- ascertained the presence of an early Christian sacellum from the 4th century in the cloisters, now called the sacellum of St. Benedict, however, the construction...