Loculus (architecture)

Loculus (pl. Loculi) is a Latin word literally meaning "little place" and was used in a number of senses. In architecture it is a recess large enough to receive a human corpse. Usually found in either a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment. Loculus can also refer to an alternative name for a sarcophagus.

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title = A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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publisher = Oxford University Press
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