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Architectural elements > Confessios

Preferred term

Confessios

Definition(s)

Crypts in churches containing the tomb of a martyr or confessor, sometimes with altars erected over them, in which case the name was extended to both the altar and the crypt [AAT 94, alt.]

Broader concept(s)

Architectural elements

Related concept(s)

Synonym(s)

CHAPELS, CONFESSIOS
CONFESSIONS, ARCHITECTURE
CRYPTS, CONFESSIOS
SHRINES, CONFESSIOS
TOMBS, CONFESSIOS

Notation

113483

In other languages

Confession, architecture

French

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-XL05KH5S-6

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