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Acerra (Incense Box)

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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In Roman antiquity, a small box or pot for holding incense, as distinct from the turibulum (thurible) or censer in which incense was burned. The name was also given by the Romans to a little altar placed near the dead, on which incense was offered every day till the burial. In ecclesiastical Latin the term acerra is still applied to the incense boats used in the Roman ritual.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acerra (Incense Box)'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/acerra-incense-box.html. 1910.
 
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