Definition: A cippus is usually a rectangular stone pillar. Inscriptions were carved into them. A cippus could be a tombstone, a boundary stone, or other site marker.
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The Cippus Abellanus, a limestone tablet (1.92 x 0.51 x 0.27 m.), is a boundary stone marking the Roman arbitration of a border dispute between two towns, Nola and Avellino.
Reference:
- "The Oscan Cippus Abellanus: A New Interpretation," by Ernst Pulgram; The American Journal of Philology, (Jan., 1960), pp. 16-29
