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plural cists
(historical, Ancient Greece) A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.
(archaeology) A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs. quotations
A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent the round house in which the deceased had lived.
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