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Easter sepulchers

Scope note

Recesses with tomb chests, usually placed in the north wall of a chancel, to hold the reserved consecrated wafers and sometimes a cross or effigy of Christ.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

30003779

Equivalent Terms used

Easter sepulcher

Created

13yrs ago

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