Loculus

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Concrete loculi at Igualada Cemetery.
Concrete loculi at Igualada Cemetery.

A loculus (pl. Loculi) in architecture 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.

[edit] Reference

  • Curl, James Stevens [2006]. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Paperback), Second (in English), Oxford University Press, 880 pages. ISBN 0-19-860678-8. 


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