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COLUMBARIUM (Lat. columba, a dove)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 738 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLUMBARIUM (
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Lat.
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columba, a
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dove)  , a
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pigeon-
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house . The
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term is applied in
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architecture to those sepulchral
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chambers in and near
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Rome, the walls of which were sunk with small niches (columbaria) to receive the cinerary urns .
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Vitruvius (iv . 2) employs the term to signify the holes made in a
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wall to receive the ends of the timbers of a
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floor or roof .

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