TURI´BULUM
TURI´BULUM (
θυμιατήριον), a censer. The Greeks and Romans, when they
sacrificed, commonly
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Turibula.
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took a little frankincense out of the
ACERRA and let it fall upon the flaming altar. [
ARA] But also they used a censer, by
means of which they burnt the incense in greater profusion, and which was in
fact a small movable
foculus (Aelian,
Ael. VH 12.51). It was not, as Rich represents
it, like the swinging censer of more modern times, but in shape was like a
candelabrum, of a design Oriental in origin, with a shallow brazier on the
top: the material was usually bronze, but sometimes silver (
Thuc. 6.46) and of costly workmanship (
Hdt. 4.162;
Cic. Ver.
4.21, 46). These turibula could
be carried in processions (
Liv. 29.14; cf.
V. Max. 3.3,
1). The
turibula represented above are in the British Museum. The turibulum was
lifted by cords or ribbons attached, as is seen in fig. 1, which is of
terracotta with the ancient cord attached, found at Fayoum: fig. 2
represents an Etruscan bronze turibulum.
(Blümner,
Privatalterth. 168; Marquardt,
Staatsverw. 3.167.)
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