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    In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula (pl.: aediculae) is a small shrine, and in classical architecture refers to a niche covered by a pediment or entablature...
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    displayed statues. Small Roman temples called Aedicula were often decorated with niches. For example, an aedicula on Lake Albano in Italy has six niches of...
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    Photograph of an aedicula (Torah Shrine) in the west wall of the synagogue at Dura-Europos (Salahiyeh) in Syria....
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    provided to support the claim. The grave allegedly lies at the foot of the aedicula beneath the floor. The remains of four individuals and several farm animals...
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    Aedicula of the Excubitorium of the 7th cohort of the Vigiles in Rome...
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    first chamber inside the aedicula The Tomb of Jesus (raised platform to the right, interior the second chamber inside the aedicula) The rotunda is the building...
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    Soldier) and two vertical marble reliefs that descend from the edges of the aedicula containing the statue of the goddess Roma and which run downwards laterally...
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    and pretors. Towards Via Cappello is another column, with a 14th-century aedicula with reliefs of the Virgin and the Saints Zeno, Peter and Christopher....
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    to house some yorishiro. Glossary of Shinto Setsumatsusha Spirit house Aedicula The word yorishiro (依り代) literally means approach substitute. Yorishiro...
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    Lorenzo Florence, San Lorenzo Cavalcanti Annunciation Relief, high, in an aedicula Pietra serena (Macigno) and terracotta, whitened and gilded 1435, circa...
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    that the onion dome was originally regarded as a form reminiscent of the aedicula (cubiculum) in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Onion domes...
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  • The Cantius Stele is a Roman grave stele in the form of a rectangular aedicula from Noricum, which was created around AD 100. The stele, which measures...
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    In 1757, the Franciscans began constructing their altar in front of the Aedicula richly decorated with gifts received from various European countries. On...
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  • common name for church and related buildings made of corrugated iron Aedicula or tabernacle, a nook or frame intended for a tabernacle shrine The biblical...
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    cross-topped column. After it was destroyed in 1867, Pope Pius IX had an aedicula, called "Spire", put in its place. This monument, designed by Ignazio Jacometti...
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    VIII (1594) to Callixtus II (1123) and Gregory I (590–604), built over an aedicula containing fragments of bones that were folded in a tissue with gold decorations...
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    related to the main temple, and included (in date order): a bronze shrine (aedicula) of Concord erected by the aedile Gnaeus Flavius in 304 BC "in Graecostasis"...
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    Lacus Juturnae The aedicula and marble altar of the Lacus Iuturnae. Lacus Iuturnae Shown within Rome Location Regione VIII Forum Romanum Coordinates 41°53′31″N...
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    In the right apse is the Romanesque image of the Virgin of Peace. The aedicula is a small two-story shrine located in the center of the church. It is...
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    span two floors of windows, a balustrade with large pinnacles, and an aedicula with an equestrian statue of Saint James (now disappeared), well adorned...
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    there, in the pronaos in front of the statue of Minerva, stood Iuventas's aedicula. "Aspects anciens de Janus et de Junon" in Revue belge de philologie 1953...
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    Shrine outer wall with projecting minor shrine (aedicula) in Lakshmi Narasimha temple at Nuggehalli...
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    towers in relief (called aedicula or turrets), the execution of which evolved during the Later Chalukya rule. The Vesara style aedicula are supported by double...
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    Coronation of the Virgin. The site was originally occupied by a votive aedicula, built in the 15th century and housing a Madonna and Child picture named...
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    their east ends where the altar stood, and in place of the apse was an aedicula or niche embellished with an arch and columns in applied in plaster.: 671 ...
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  • aed- building aedicule, aedile, cavaedium, edification, edifice, edile †aedicula aedicul- aemulus aemul-, im- emulate, emulation, emulator, emulous, image...
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    emperors are often shown underneath such a structure, often called an aedicula ("little house"), which term is reserved in modern architectural usage...
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    main door of the synagogue faces the southeast, towards Jerusalem. An aedicula, to serve as a Torah Ark, was added in the 4th century AD. A donor inscription...
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    Linaioli, literally "Tabernacle of the Linen manufacturers") is a marble aedicula designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti, with paintings by Fra Angelico, dating to...
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    to reconstruct the boy king's tomb. Horn's drawings Tomb of Baldwin V Aedicula of the tomb of Jesus The Holy Sepulchre, featuring the immovable ladder...
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