Taking its name from the Latin for dove and originally referring to housing for doves/pigeons, what is the name given to a place where cinerary urns are stored?
"the archaeologic finds on Masada, a columbarium tower foundation remains. Columbarium A columbarium (pl. columbaria) is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns (those holding a deceased's cremated remains), but can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin """"columba"""" (dove) and, originally, solely referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons called a dovecote. Roman columbaria were often built partly or completely underground. The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas is an ancient Roman example, rich in frescoes, decorations and precious mosaics. Today's columbaria can be either free standing units, or"
"Dovecote A dovecote or dovecot or doocot (Scots: ""doocot"") is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in Western Europe and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung. In some cultures, particularly Medieval Europe, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power and was consequently regulated by law. Only nobles had this special privilege known as"
"the ashes typically placed in a painted Greek vase. In particular the ""lekythos"", a shape of vase, was used for holding oil in funerary rituals. Romans placed the urns in a niche in a collective tomb called a ""columbarium"" (literally, dovecote). The interior of a dovecote usually has niches to house doves. Cremation urns were also commonly used in early Anglo Saxon England, and in many Pre-Columbian cultures. In some later European traditions, a king's heart, and sometimes other organs, could be placed in one or more urns upon his death, as happened with King Otto of Bavaria in 1916,"
"Peristerium A peristerium, or Eucharistic dove in the Western church, is a metallic vessel, in the shape of a dove (pigeon), which can be hung over an altar, most often in Eastern Christian churches. Western eucharistic doves were used in medieval churches to keep consecrated hosts from the Eucharist (the Blessed Sacrament). These consecrated Hosts are in the Pyx, which could be put into it by a flap in the back of the dove's body. Many were made in Spanish or Limoges enamel, with generally only the wings and eyes in enamel, the rest being gilded. The dove is a"
"The term columbarium, meaning “dovecote,” reflects the nesting of a pair of urns in a burial niche, and it is by the presence of these subterranean cremation urns that columbaria are most commonly identified. Columbaria are unique for a variety of reasons, including their location, collective nature, and relatively short lifespan. The columbaria at Vigna Codini are located along the Via Appia, which was the traditional placement of the monumental tombs of elite Republican families. Whereas these aristocratic burials were prominently displayed along the street, the nearby non-elite columbaria that arose in the Augustan period were almost entirely subterranean and"
"Vivarium A vivarium (Latin, literally for ""place of life""; plural: ""vivaria"" or ""vivariums"") is an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research. Often, a portion of the ecosystem for a particular species is simulated on a smaller scale, with controls for environmental conditions. A vivarium may be small enough to sit on a desk or table, such as a terrarium or an aquarium, or may be a very large structure, possibly outdoors. Large vivaria, particularly those holding organisms capable of flight, typically include some sort of a dual-door mechanism such as a sally"
"well-preserved horreum in Ostia, the Horrea Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana, is known from an inscription to have been named after two freedmen (presumably its owners), Epagathus and Epaphroditus. Horreum A horreum (plural: ""horrea"") was a type of public warehouse used during the ancient Roman period. Although the Latin term is often used to refer to granaries, Roman horrea were used to store many other types of consumables; the giant Horrea Galbae in Rome were used not only to store grain but also olive oil, wine, foodstuffs, clothing and even marble. By the end of the imperial period, the city of Rome"
"a smaller arch with a similar door for pedestrians. Across the top of the gate is a dovecote with 6-12 or more pigeonholes and a roof of wooden shingles or tiles. The Romans may have introduced dovecotes or ""columbaria"" to Britain since pigeon holes have been found in Roman ruins at Caerwent. However, it is believed that doves were not commonly kept there until after the Norman invasion. The earliest known examples of dove-keeping occur in Norman castles of the 12th century (for example, at Rochester Castle, Kent, where nest-holes can be seen in the keep), and documentary references also"
"Morgue A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification or removal for autopsy or respectful burial, cremation or other method. In modern times corpses have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition. ""Mortuary"" early 14c., from Anglo-French mortuarie ""gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner,"" from Medieval Latin mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective mortuarius ""pertaining to the dead,"" from Latin ""mortuus"", pp. of ""mori"" ""to die"" (see mortal (adj.)). Meaning ""place where bodies are kept temporarily"" first recorded 1865, a euphemism for earlier English"
"Glirarium A glirarium is a terracotta container used for keeping edible dormice. These animals were considered a delicacy in the Etruscan period and later in the Roman Empire. The container consists of a vessel, usually in terracotta, perforated to allow the passage of air, polished on the inside to prevent escape and with a lid to seal the top. Inside there are two or more shelves placed against the vessel walls and additional holes in the bottom of the vessel, generally more numerous than those on the sides. By inducing hibernation via darkness and confinement, the glirarium would cause the"
"Horreum A horreum (plural: ""horrea"") was a type of public warehouse used during the ancient Roman period. Although the Latin term is often used to refer to granaries, Roman horrea were used to store many other types of consumables; the giant Horrea Galbae in Rome were used not only to store grain but also olive oil, wine, foodstuffs, clothing and even marble. By the end of the imperial period, the city of Rome had nearly 300 horrea to supply its demands. The biggest were enormous, even by modern standards; the Horrea Galbae contained 140 rooms on the ground floor alone,"
"Villa of the Papyri The Villa of the Papyri (, also known as ""Villa dei Pisoni"") is named after its unique library of ""papyri"" (or scrolls), but is also one of the most luxurious houses in all of Herculaneum and in the Roman world. Its luxury is shown by its exquisite architecture and by the very large number of outstanding works of art discovered, including frescoes, bronzes and marble sculpture which constitute the largest collection of Greek and Roman sculptures ever discovered in a single context. It is located in the current ""comune"" of Ercolano, southern Italy. It was situated"
"can affix it to his or her person during transport to prevent the consecrated host(s) from being accidentally lost. These objects, and others, such as the lunette, and the monstrance, that contain a consecrated host, are normally kept within the church tabernacle when they are not being carried. The tabernacle may be behind the main altar, at a side altar, or within a special Eucharistic chapel. In late antiquity, the custom developed in the East of suspending a vessel in the form of a dove (Greek: ""peristerion"", Latin: ""peristerium"") over the altar, which was used as a repository for the"
"Libitina Libitina, also Libentina or Lubentina, is an ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burial. Her name was used as a metonymy for death, and undertakers were known as ""libitinarii"". Libitina was associated with Venus, and the name appears in some authors as an epithet of Venus. The grove ""(lucus)"" of Libitina was located on the Esquiline Hill, as were several religious sites indicating that the area had ""unhealthy and ill-omened"" associations. A public cemetery was located outside the Esquiline Gate, in the Campus Esquilinus. A temple of Venus in the grove of Libitina celebrated its founding anniversary August 19,"
"Animal latrine Animal latrines (latrine areas, animal toilets, defecation sites) are places where wildlife animals habitually defecate and urinate. Many kinds of animals are highly specific in this respect and have stereotyped routines, including approach and departure. Many of them have communal, ""i.e."", shared, latrines. Animals with communal latrines include raccoons, Eurasian badgers, elephants, deer, antelopes, horses, and dicynodonts (a 240-million-year-old site is the ""world's oldest public toilet""). A regularly used toilet area or dunghill, created by many mammals, such as hyraxes or moles, is also called a midden. Some lizards, such as yakka skinks (""Egernia rugosa"") and thorny devils"
"of small opus vermiculatum tesserae stones) at the Capitoline Museum, known by means of a reproduction discovered in Hadrian's Villa. In it one sees four doves perched on the edge of a gilt bronze basin filled with water. One of them is watering herself while the others seem to be resting, which creates effects of reflections and shadow perfectly studied by the artist. The “Dove Basin” mosaic panel is an emblema, designed to be the central point of an otherwise plain mosaic floor. The emblema was originally an import from the Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean, where, in cities such as Pergamom,"
"painting presented a shelf of artifacts. To the left of the shelf was a shrine with a pediment shaped like a triangle. In front of the pediment was a burner with a smoking incense. There are three major elements of ""Las Damas Romanas"", namely the women, the dogs, and the doves. Roman life involved having dogs because they were employed by the ancient Romans for hunting activities, guardians of the home and their property, and as pets. In Luna's painting, the leashed pet dogs were acting as companions of women. Doves, on the other hand, were animals that connote eroticism."
"Orri Traditionally, an orri referred to an ""enclosed area for gathering sheep"" in the Eastern Pyrenees. In the late twentieth century, the word has taken on the meaning of ""drystone hut"". In higher Vicdessos, a part of the French ""département"" of Ariège, the word ""orri"" traditionally referred to a summer mountain habitat consisting of an enclosed area for gathering sheep and a number of stone huts used as dwellings or for cheese making. In the 1960s, when the long-deserted ""orris"" of Ariège were rediscovered by scholars, their ancient name was erroneously construed as applying only to the ""stone hut"" used"
"Cunicularium A cunicularium is an establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. This enterprise is known as cuniculture. The term was coined in mediaeval Latin as ""cunicularium"" (plural ""cunicularia""), from Classical Latin ""cunicularis"" ""pertaining to the rabbit"", itself from ""cuniculus"", from which the English ""cony"" (the European rabbit ""Oryctolagus cuniculus""). The Latin is taken from the Greek κύνικλος ""kúniklos"" (""kýniklos"") (compare modern Greek κουνέλι ""kouneli""). The earliest known use of this word is in Polybius: An etymology has been proposed for the Greek word deriving it from a word meaning ""burrow""; but it"
"Ambry An ambry (or ""almery"", ""aumbry""; from the medieval form ""almarium"", cf. Lat. ""armārium"", ""a place for keeping tools""; cf. O. Fr. ""aumoire"" and mod. armoire) is a recessed cabinet in the wall of a Christian church for storing sacred vessels and vestments. They are sometimes near the piscina, but more often on the opposite side. The word also seems in medieval times to be used commonly for any closed cupboard and even bookcase. Items kept in an ambry include chalices and other vessels, as well as items for the reserved sacrament, the consecrated elements from the Eucharist. This latter"
"of Dogs scientific demonstratiion Cave of Dogs The Cave of Dogs (in Italian ""Grotta del Cane"", literally ""Cave of the Dog"") is a small cave on the eastern side of the Phlegraean Fields near Pozzuoli, Naples. Inside the cave is a fumarole that releases carbon dioxide of volcanic origin. It was a famous, if gruesome, tourist attraction for travellers on the Grand Tour. The CO gas, being denser than air, tends to accumulate in the deeper parts of the cave. Local guides, for a fee, would suspend small animals inside it—usually dogs—until they became unconscious. Because humans inhaled air from"
"Canaba A Canaba (Canabae plural) was the Latin term for a hut or hovel and was later (from the time of Hadrian) used typically to mean a collection of ""huts"" (Canabae legionis) that emerged as a civilian settlement in the vicinity of a Roman legionary fortress (castrum). Where such a settlement grew up outside an auxiliary fort it was called a 'vicus' (village, plural ""vici""), which is the term most widely used for this type of settlement, and because ""canabae"" were often divided into ""vici"". Permanent forts attracted military dependants and civilian contractors who serviced the base who needed housing;"
"Cave of Dogs The Cave of Dogs (in Italian ""Grotta del Cane"", literally ""Cave of the Dog"") is a small cave on the eastern side of the Phlegraean Fields near Pozzuoli, Naples. Inside the cave is a fumarole that releases carbon dioxide of volcanic origin. It was a famous, if gruesome, tourist attraction for travellers on the Grand Tour. The CO gas, being denser than air, tends to accumulate in the deeper parts of the cave. Local guides, for a fee, would suspend small animals inside it—usually dogs—until they became unconscious. Because humans inhaled air from a higher level they"
"cinerary urns in the shape of miniature ""tuguria"" (""huts""). In Phase I of the Latium culture (c. 1000–900 BC) these hut-urns only appear in some burials, but they become standard in Phase II cremation burials (900–770 BC). They represent the typical single-roomed hovels of contemporary peasants, which were made from simple, readily available materials: wattle-and-daub walls and straw roofs supported by wooden posts. The huts remained the main form of Latin housing until about 650 BC. The most famous exemplar was the ""Casa Romuli"" (""Hut of Romulus"") on the southern slope of the Palatine Hill, supposedly built by the legendary"
"burial. Mortuary houses differ from mortuary enclosures in size, design and in the latter's capacity for multiple burials. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word mortuary derived in the early 14th century, from the word mortuarie, an Anglo-French word meaning ""gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner""; from a Medieval Latin word mortuarium, a noun use of neuterof Late Latin adjective mortuarius ""pertaining to the dead"", from Latin mortuus, past participle of mori ""to die"". The meaning ""place where bodies are kept temporarily"" was first recorded in 1865, a euphemism for earlier deadhouse. Philip Lieberman suggests that"
"Urn An urn is a vase, often with a cover, that usually has a somewhat narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. Describing a vessel as an ""urn"", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or origin. The term is especially often used for funerary urns, vessels used in burials, either to hold the cremated ashes or as grave goods, but is used in many other contexts; in catering large vessels for serving tea or coffee are often called ""tea-urns"", even when they are metal cylinders of"
"which have been known as ""lemurs"" ever since. The name derives from the Latin term ""lemures"", which refers to the ""spirits of the dead"" from Roman mythology. According to Linnaeus' own explanation, the name was selected because of the nocturnal activity and slow movements of the slender loris. Being familiar with the works of Virgil and Ovid and seeing an analogy that fit with his naming scheme, Linnaeus adapted the term ""lemur"" for these nocturnal primates. However, it has been commonly and falsely assumed that Linnaeus was referring to the ghost-like appearance, reflective eyes, and ghostly cries of lemurs. It"
"they slept on, would be confined to dark, damp, vermin-infested cells known as ""oubliettes"" (literally ""forgotten places""). In keeping with the name, they were left to live or die in conditions that were ideal for the plague and other infectious diseases, which were rife in the unsanitary conditions of the prison. Three towers survive from the medieval Conciergerie: the Caesar Tower, named in honor of the Roman Emperors; the Silver Tower, named for its alleged use as the store for the royal treasure; and the Bonbec (""good beak"") Tower, named for the torture chamber that it housed, in which victims"
"Cenacle The Cenacle (from Latin ""cēnāculum"" ""dining room"", later spelt coenaculum and semantically drifting towards ""upper room""), also known as the ""Upper Room"", is a room in the David's Tomb Compound in Jerusalem, traditionally held to be the site of the Last Supper. The word is a derivative of the Latin word ""cēnō"", which means ""I dine"". The Gospel of Mark employs the Koine Greek: αναγαιον, ""anagaion"", (), whereas the Acts of the Apostles uses Koine Greek: ύπερωιον, ""hyperōion"" (), both with the meaning ""upper room"". The language in Acts suggests that the apostles used the Upper Room as a"
"Hibernaculum (zoology) A hibernaculum ""plural form: hibernacula"" (Latin, ""tent for winter quarters"") is a place in which a creature seeks refuge, such as a bear using a cave to overwinter. The word can be used to describe a variety of shelters used by many kinds of animals, including insects, toads, lizards, snakes, bats, rodents, and primates of various species. Insects range in their size, structure, and general appearance but most use hibernacula. All insects are primarily exothermic. For this reason, extremely cold temperatures, such as those experienced in the winter season, outside of tropical locations, cause their metabolic systems to"
"Ossuary An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is. In Persia, the Zoroastrians used a deep well for this"
"reindeer urine was collected by handlers and then stored in on-site refrigerators for use. The experiment was extended to canaries, which were housed in two hanging cage pieces, to mice, and to flies. A mushroom-shaped ""Elevator Bed"" was installed in the middle of the space, and visitors could spend the night on the premise for a fee. The title ""Soma"" comes from the name of the sacred libation drunk by the Indo-European followers of the Vedic religion, Hinduism's 5,000-year-old parent. Its ancient text, the Rigveda, contains 114 hymns to ""creative juice"", supposed to offer immortality. The recipe was lost, but"
"the patricians, but this has been disputed by others. Aerarium Aerarium (from Latin ""aes"", in its derived sense of ""money"") was the name (in full, ""aerarium stabulum"" - treasure-house) given in Ancient Rome to the public treasury, and in a secondary sense to the public finances. The treasury contained the monies and accounts of the state finances. It also held the standards of the legions; the public laws engraved on brass, the decrees of the Senate and other papers and registers of importance. These public treasures were deposited in the temple of Saturn at the Forum Romanum, on the eastern"