Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Sacrarium

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A place in which sacred things were kept (Suet. Tib. 51). In temples it probably

Sacrarium. (Pompeii.)

stood directly behind the wall of the cella. See Marquardt, Staatsverwaltung, iii. 168.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)