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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