| 词条 | Bisomus |
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A bisomus is a tomb large enough to contain two bodies.[1] HistoryThe ordinary tombs (loci) in the galleries of the Roman catacombs contained one body. It sometimes happened, however, that a space large enough to contain two bodies was excavated. Such a double grave is referred to in inscriptions as locus bisomus. An inscription from the catacomb of St. Calixtus, for instance, informs us that a certain Boniface, who died at the age of twenty-three years and two months, was interred in a double grave which had been prepared for himself and for his father (Bonifacius, qui vixit annix XXII et II (mens) es, positus in bisomum in pace, sibi et patr. suo). A 4th century inscription tells of two ladies who had purchased for their future interment, a bisomus in a "new crypt" which contained the body of a Saint:[1] {{quote|IN CRYPTA NOBA RETRO SAN CTUS EMERVM VIVAS BALER RA ET SABINA MERUM LOC V BISOM AB APRONE ET A BIATORE }} Like so many pious but rather superstitious persons of that age, "Balerra" and "Sabina" wished to be buried in the closest proximity to a martyr, retro sanctos, a privilege which, as we learn from another inscription, "many desire but few receive" (quod multi cupiunt et rari accipiunt).[1] References1. ^1 2 {{CE1913|inline=y |first=Maurice M. |last=Hassett|wstitle=Bisomus |volume=2}} {{RC-stub}}{{Italy-cemetery-stub}} 1 : Tombs |
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