A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 478
onument (compare Grave Monu-ment), and in connection with this, the familytombs of American cemeteries should be men-tioned, which have usually a chamber for theaccess of the living, and sejxirate receptacles forcoffins opening out of it on one side or on manysides, or opening upon a burial chamber… … Tomb, Fig. 5, that of Iajilichls, Palmyra, a.d. 83. massive, each side of the octagon having threereceptacles for coflins opening sidewise into the
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