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aedicula

aedicula, 1
1. A canopied niche flanked by colonnettes intended as a shelter for a statue or as a shrine.
2. A door or window framed by columns or pilasters and crowned with a pediment.
3. Diminutive of aedes.
4. A small chapel.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Aedicula

 

(aedicule, edicule), in classical architecture, a niche framed by columns or pilasters resting on a pedestal and with a pediment above. It contained statues of the gods and was featured in temples, public buildings, and residences. The term is also used in reference to small Greek and ancient Roman shrines.

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The shape of the frame recalls that of a small shrine, which is why they are often referred to by scholars as an aedicula, but this design also may evoke the stage sets used in ancient theaters.
9f) (Saenz y Martin-Bueno, 2010: 823-826) concebido para que la atencion no se centre en las paredes--decoradas con simples paneles rojos separados por bandas verdes--sino en la aedicula que se orna con un grupo de figuras mitologicas y personajes finamente realizados en estuco.
In Roman architecture, the niche, or aedicula [small house], held a ceremonial figure; with a gable it signified a house for the gods, or later, honour associated with the person represented by the statue.
aedicula eius tot aperitur, ut conspici possit undique effigies deae, favente ipsa, ut creditur, facta, nec minor ex quacumque parte admiratio est.
Within the context of the Julian Basilica, however, statues and perhaps an aedicula are likely.
Toys became as much a symbol of the architect as the ponderous Latinate aedicula ("little house') set inside his homes.
Se ha documentado asi una via sepulchralis que vertebra parte de la necropolis, donde se han encontrado formulas sepulcrales posiblemente vinculadas al Norte de Africa como las cupae, monumentos turriformes como el Hornillo de Santa Catalina o bien otros sobre podium de tipo aedicula, etc.
Asimismo, este edificio tendria unas medidas que, a pesar de no haberse documentado su planta de manera completa, se asemejan bastante a multitud de pequenos edificios religiosos del tipo sacellum o aedicula, como podrian ser los casos hispanos del sacellum del Circulo Catolico de Huesca--de 7,8 x 5, 20 m (Asensio, 2003)--, del sacellum de la cavea del Teatro de Bilbilis, --con 11, 5 x 7, 5 m (Martin-Bueno y Saenz, 2004)--, pero sobre todo del de Iuppiter Stator en el Cabezo Gallufo, bahia de Cartagena--de 10, 45 x 5,79 m--, dedicado por un liberto perteneciente a una de las principales familias productoras de plomo de esta region, los Aquinii (Amante et al., 1995; Antolinos y Noguera, 2013), y con el que tambien coincide en orientacion--NE-SO-.
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