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- noun art A painted framed
niche giving the appearance of depth. - noun A small
shrine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meanwhile, new patches completed the architraves of the third aedicula.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 2 2003
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Trials of the architraves belonging to the third aedicula were done in situ and afterward it was necessary to complete some parts of these architraves for structural reasons.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 2 2003
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The architrave-frieze blocks of the fourth aedicula are brought into place.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 5 2003
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The two capitals of the fourth aedicula, one of them completely new and carved by Sinan Ilhan, were positioned in place so that the trials of the architraves belonging to the fourth aedicula could start.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 2 2003
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A similar head also fills the central part of the cassette in the ceiling of this aedicula.
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A third fragment with the head of a goddess in the upper part of an aedicula (tabernacle) could now be identified as part of the same monument.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Epigraphical Studies Report 1 2003
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On the new platform we reassembled the architrave and frieze blocks of the easternmost aedicula above the plastic sheets indicating their position in the structure.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Restoration & Conservation Report 4 2003
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In fact, the third and fourth aedicula seem to have been turned slightly outwards, so that even one of the soffits (decoration on the bottom part of an architrave) disappeared into the back wall.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Restoration & Conservation Report 5 2003
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In addition to the work on the second arch and the central niche, the front architrave of the fifth aedicula was put back into place.
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Not only could we close the conch on the central niche of the building, but we also were able to put back into place the triangular gable of the fifth aedicula (tabernacle) from the left, decorated with a Medusa head.
knitandpurl commented on the word aedicula
"I give him a pamphlet gladly, and he places it on a pile of other pamphlets from other companies, on the handy pamphlet table in his home's entryway, an aedicula to life's mysterious accumulation of printed collateral."
Temporary by Hilary Leichter, p 133 of the Coffee House Press paperback
August 15, 2021