sacellum

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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

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.

These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John

On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

Splendidum etiam illud sacellum westmonasterij, magno sumptu atque magnificentia ab eodem est conditum.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall