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plural cippuses or cippi
A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. quotations examples
[…] lodged on the top of an ancient sepulchral cippus
1855, Henry Duncan, Autumn
[A] cippus, found at Valencia in Spain, has on one of its sides Fatus Q. Fabius ex voto, and on the other, three female figures, with the attributes of the Mœræ or Parcæ.
1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5
(historical) The stocks.