Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Zotheca

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ZOTHE'CA. A small private chamber or cabinet, adjoining a larger one, and affording privacy for business or study. Plin. Ep. ii. 17. 21.

2. A niche, for a statue or other object (Inscript. ap. Orelli. 1368. ap. Murat. 690. 2.), like the central recess in the annexed engraving (Zotheca/2.1), which represents one side of a sepulchral chamber excavated near Rome.

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