Definition: Prostyle, Forecourt, Tower Tomb, Loculus, Distaff, Closing Stone

Palmyra and tombs today…

 

Tower tomb

Towers used as kinship grouping tombs in Palmyra, often occupying high ground

 

Loculus (plural loculi)

An architectural compartment or niche that houses a body in a place of entombment, but in botany, each of a number of small separate cavities, especially in an ovary

 

Distaff

A stick or spindle onto which wool or flax is wound for spinning

 

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