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Definitions of hypogeum in various dictionaries:
A subterranean chamber of an ancient building.
An ancient subterranean burial chamber, such as a catacomb.
noun - an underground chamber
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| An underground chamber. |
| A subterranean chamber of an ancient building. |
| An ancient subterranean burial chamber, such as a catacomb. |
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Hypogeum or hypogaeum (plural hypogea or hypogaea which is commonly seen ) literally means "underground", from Greek hypo (under) and gaia (mother earth or goddess of earth). It usually refers to an underground temple or tomb. * The later Christians built similar underground shrines, crypts and tombs, which they called catacombs. But this was only a difference in name, rather than purpose and rituals, and archeological and historical research shows they were effectively the same. Werner Jacobsen wrote, * Like other ambitious Romans, the bishop-saints of the third and fourth centuries were usually buried in hypogea in the cemeteries outside the walls of their cities; often it was only miracles at their tombs that caused their successors to adopt more up-to-date designs. In Dijon the saint and bishop Benignus (d. c. 274) was buried in a large sarcophagus in a chamber tomb in the Roman cemetery. By the sixth century the tomb had long since fallen into disrepair and was regarded as pagan, |