Loculus
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Loculus may refer to:
- Loculus (satchel)Loculus (satchel)Loculus is a Latin word literally meaning little place and was used in a number of senses including to indicate a satchel. Satchels were carried by Roman legionaries, as a part of their sarcina or luggage....
- Loculus (architecture)Loculus (architecture)Loculus is a Latin word literally meaning little place and was used in a number of senses. In architecture it is a recess large enough to receive a human corpse. Usually found in either a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment. Loculus can also refer to an alternative name for...
, a burial niche - Loculus of Archimedes or OstomachionOstomachionOstomachion, also known as loculus Archimedius and also as syntomachion, is a mathematical treatise attributed to Archimedes. This work has survived fragmentarily in an Arabic version and in a copy of the original ancient Greek text made in Byzantine times...
, a mathematical puzzle similar to tangrams