Sacellum

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title: Sacellum
text: In ancient Roman religion, a sacellum is a small shrine. The word is a diminutive from sacrum. The numerous sacella of ancient Rome included both shrines maintained on private properties by families, and public shrines. A sacellum might be square or round. Varro and Verrius Flaccus describe sacella in ways that at first seem contradictory, the former 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
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description: Small shrine in ancient Roman religion
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date created: 2009-11-03T09:05:08Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T14:15:54Z
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