sacellum
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The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.
From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew
This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew
A discovery even more fortunate, in 1857, led Sir Charles Newton to a little sacellum, or family chapel, near Cnidos.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
The other appellation "sacellum," applied by Boece to the hermit's chapel, is a better known and more classical word than the capellula of the Scotichronicon.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John
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