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This type of Roman tomb has small niches intended to hold cremation urns. It was so named for its resemblance to a dovecot (Lat. columbarium). Some tombs had receptacles for an offering and some also held portrait busts. Tombs of the columbarium type were sometimes constructed wholly or partially underground, typically in the tufaceous earth of Rome, or they were built above ground of masonry, as seen at Ostia or Pompeii. Columbaria are most commonly rectangular in plan, with niches disposed in regular pattern in the walls, usually in course and one above the other. Variations may take the form of corridors lined with niches. Among the important columbaria found in Rome are three built for freedmen in the Vigna Codini (early 1st century CE).Grove Dictionary of ArtThere is a blank margin along the bottom of the print
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lower center, in black: 225B ROMA Colombario nella Vigna Codini
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