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...
- 916yds Sistine Chapel     The Sistine Chapel (/ˈsɪstiːn/ SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel...
- defining a sacellum in its entirety as equivalent to a cella, which is specifically an enclosed space, and the latter insisting that a sacellum had no roof...
- Indothais sacellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. MolluscaBase (2018)...
- 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...
- mention her, Caca is probably an older Roman goddess. Servius says she had a sacellum (shrine), probably located in Rome, where sacrifices were made to her through...
- old one, but according to Georg Wissowa the location of Nenia's shrine (sacellum) outside the center of early Rome indicates that she didn't belong to the...
- 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...
- other side, which faces inside the Vittoriano, is in a crypt), from the sacellum of the statue of the goddess Roma (which is exactly above the tomb of the...