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

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and Ossuarium. A receptacle of

Ossarium of Agrippina. (Capitoline Museum.)

stone or other material which held the vase containing the bones and ashes of the dead, when deposited in sepulchral chambers. See Columbarium.

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)