The columbarium provides for three hundred urns; less than half these receptacles are as yet filled, but the number of cremations increases slowly year by year.
On the left, is the Columbarium of the Freedmen of Augustus and Livia, divided into three chambers, but despoiled of its adornments.
Near this is a curious Columbarium of the Arruntia Family, and a brick-lined hollow, supposed to be part of the Naumachia which Dion Cassius says that Augustus constructed "in the grove of Caius and Lucius.
In the wall on the left inscriptions from the columbarium of Livia.
A columbarium was a tomb containing a number of cinerary urns in niches like pigeon-holes, whence the name.
In the opposite vineyard, behind the chapel of the Oleo, very picturesquely situated under the Aurelian Wall, is the Columbarium of the Freedmen of Octavia.
In the present instance the columbarium is more than usually decorated, and, though much smaller, it is far more worth seeing than the columbaria which it is the custom to visit immediately upon the Appian Way.
The last discoveredColumbarium is the most interesting of the group.
One tomb was thus capable of containing the remains of a large number of persons; no less than six thousand of the freedmen of Augustus being deposited in the Columbarium which bears their name.
Clarke, architect, of London, whose pencil has also furnished me with the sketch of the family columbariumin Plate V.
Language is the columbarium of the ideas, the cemetery of perceptions.
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