loculi

Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

In a catacomb used for a burial, or columbarium, one of the recesses used when large enough to receive a dead body with or without a coffin, and when smaller to receive the cinerary urn. It was customary to close the mouth of the loculus with a slab of stone or with masonry. (Jones, 1992)