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Cippus

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cippus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/cippus.html. 1910.
 
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