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BISOMUS - Sepulchral slab of the 4th century - Rome, cemetery of Priscilla.

BISOMUS. - With "locus" understood, it means a burial place for two bodies and is terminology proper to the Roman catacombs. Like the similar terms trisomus and quadrisomus, it refers properly to the deep loculi cut horizontally into the vertical walls of the underground galleries, whereas the broad graves dug in the ground, with multiple places separated by marble slabs, were rather called biscandens and terscandens. That terminology was also applied to large sarcophagi and to the graves of arcosolia. Its hybrid Greek-Latin character reveals its origin and popular use; the purely Greek form disomus is very rare and of non-Christian use. See also TOMBA.

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BIBL.: G. B. De Rossi, Roma sotterranea, III, Rome 1877, pp. 412 and 416; H. Leclercq, s. v. in DACL, II, col. 910 ff.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1678.

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Ferrua, Antonio. “Bisomus.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1678. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bisomus.

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Ferrua, Antonio. “Bisomus.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1678. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bisomus.

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  author    = {Ferrua, Antonio},
  title     = {Bisomus},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1678},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bisomus}
}

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