Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by function]
8. ceremonial structures
9. funerary structures
10. sepulchral monuments

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components
4. components
5. components by specific context
6. architectural elements
7. architectural elements by building type
8. religious building fixtures
9. altars and altar components
10. altars

Anotations

Scope note:

Altars for which the mensa rests on a sarcophagus containing relics. These developed from the Early Christian practice of celebrating the Eucharist slabs placed directly on the tombs saints. The creation of sarcophagus altars flourished in the 16th-17th centuries.