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CIPPUS (Lat. for a " post " or " stake ")

CIPPUS (See also:
LAT
Lat. for a " See also:
POST
post " or " stake ") , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, a See also:

low See also:

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal, either See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round or rectangular, set up by the See also:

Romans for various purposes such as military ,or mile stones, boundary posts, &c . The See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions on some in the See also:

BRITISH

British Museum show that they were occasionally funeral memorials .

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