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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIPPUS (
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Lat. for a "
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post " or " stake ")  , in
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architecture, a
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low
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pedestal, either
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round or rectangular, set up by the
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Romans for various purposes such as military ,or mile stones, boundary posts, &c . The
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inscriptions on some in the
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British Museum show that they were occasionally funeral memorials .

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