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THURIBLE (Lat. thuribulum or turibulum, thus or tus, incense, Gr. Ms, from Ou&av, to offer a burnt sacrifice, cf. Skr. dhuma and Lat. fumus, smoke)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 901 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
THURIBLE (Lat. thuribulum or turibulum, thus or tus, incense, Gr. Ms, from Ou&av, to offer a burnt sacrifice, cf. Skr. dhuma and Lat. fumus, smoke) , the ecclesiastical
term
  for a censer, a
portable vessel in which burning
incense
  (q.v.) can be carried. The censer, to use the more general
term
 , is a vessel which contains burning charcoal on which the aromatic substances to be burned are sprinkled. The early Jewish portable censer would seem to have been a bowl with a handle, resembling a ladle. A similar form was used by the ancient Egyptians
long
  prior to the Jewish use. There are very numerous representations on the monuments; in some the censer appears as a small cup or bowl held by a human hand to which a
long
  handle is attached on which is a small box to hold the
incense
 . The Greek and Roman censers (Bviscar, pcov and turibulum or thuribulum) are of quite different shape. They are small portable braziers (foculi) of bronze or sometimes of silver and of highly ornate
design
 . One type took the form of a candelabrum with a small flat brazier on the top. They were carried in processions and were lifted by cords. Terra cotta censers have also been found of a similar shape. The censers or thuribles in Christian usage have been specially adapted to be swung, though there are in existence many early specimens of heavy
weight
  and made of gold or silver which were obviously not meant to be used in this way and have handles and not chains. The
thurible
 , the proper ecclesiastical term for the vessel in the Western
Church
 , is usually spherical in form, though often square or polygonal, containing a small receptacle for the charcoal and covered by a perforated lid; it is carried and swung by three chains, a fourth being attached to the lid, thus allowing it to be raised at intervals for the volume of smoke to be increased. The early thuribles were usually simple in
design
 ; but in the medieval period an architectural form was given to the lids by ornamenting them with towers, battlements and traceries, varying according to the prevalent
Gothic
  style of the period. A censer lid with a
late
  Saxon tower upon it, now in the British Museum,
dates
  from the r2th century or earlier.


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