(*cenotaphium*, from *κενός*, empty, and *τάφος*, a tomb), an empty tomb erected as a memorial of some person deceased; a funeral monument in honour of one buried elsewhere. Among the Greeks and Romans cenotaphs were erected as memorials of persons who had received the rites of sepulture elsewhere, as well as of those whose bodies were not found for burial at all. A common sign by which honorary sepulchres were distinguished was the wreck of a ship, to indicate the decease of the person in a foreign land.