corators ASSISTANT. interior Becotation, ^c. Tomb. A funeral monument raised over theremains of the dead. The earliest kind of tombsappear to have been grottos and caverns. In theplains of Etruria, many sepulcharal grottos havebeen found, hollowed in a rock, which is not dif-ficult to work. They… … C 1 the bases of columns,graving. Marked a. a. in the en^ form of a cross, or with three wings, almost likeour churches; others are squared in different pro-portions. Doors have been formed, to lead fromone grotto to another; sometimes they are aboveeach other. These grottos are not very deep.…
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