ossuarium

a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead. Also called ossuary.

See also: Bones

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Local historian Marianito Luspo said Ermita Ruins functioned as an ossuarium, a place or receptacle for skeletal remains.

Visitors find strange attraction to 200-year-old honeycomb-like tombs in Bohol

This type of ossuarium was the most common at all the Benuaq settlements.

The raised coffin-like ossuaries of the Benuaq Dayak of East Kalimantan

The ossuarium found at Athens produced a great number of coins, the latest of which were five solidi of Emperor Maurice (582-602) (Threpsiades 1971, pp.