Turibulum(72 words)
[German version]
(from tus, 'incense', also thymiaterium). Roman portable metal apparatus on which grains of incense were burned in a Roman sacrifice. For pure incense or smoke sacrifices there was a small portable altar, called an acerra or an ara turicrema. Acerra also seems (Val. Max. 3,3,3) to have been used as a synonym for a turibulum.
Sacrifice; Thymiaterion
Siebert, Anne Viola (Hannover)
Bibliography
A. V. Siebert, Instrumenta sacra, 1999, 93-98; 256 f. (Lit.).
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Siebert, Anne Viola (Hannover),
“Turibulum”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 04 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1222980>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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