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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 3268521, member: 44132&quot;]FAC has it as &quot;cista mystica&quot;, and I do believe they are correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>Definition:&nbsp; The cista (or cista mystica) was a basket used for housing sacred snakes in connection with the initiation ceremony into the cult of Bacchus (Dionysus). In the Dionysian mysteries a serpent , representing the god, was carried in a cista on a bed of vine leaves.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cippus Definition:&nbsp; A small low pillar usually inscribed and used in ancient Rome and Greece as a gravestone or landmark.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like a basket and there is no writing on it.&nbsp; Cista Mystica it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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