κιβούριον

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εἰς τὸ κιβούριον τῆς ἁγίας Σοφίας
ἃς οἱ πλάνοι καθεῖλον ἐνθάδ᾽ εἰκόνας
ἄνακτες ἐστήλωσαν εὐσεβεῖς πάλιν.
This word is neither in Bailly nor in LS, (the latter has κιβώριον, a kind of beans I guess). In the addenda, LS has the same word translated as tomb (probably from Arabic qabr?). So what does it mean here (this is just the first line of the Greek Anthology from Perseus)?
My tentative translation:
On the Tomb/ Sepulchre of the Holy Sophia
The icons which the vagabonds had pulled down there,
The pious lords restored again.

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Canopy, baldachin of the holy table.


Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods (from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100)
by Sophocles, E. A. (Evangelinus Apostolides), 1807-1883; Thayer, Joseph Henry, 1828-1901;

Maybe because it looks like a bean?

EDIT

Some information about Latin usage:
Altar Canopy
Ciborium

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Horace refers to drinking cups as ciboria:
oblivioso levia Massico | ciboria exple (Hor.Od.2.7.21f.).

I imagine the shape resembles (or originally resembled) the bean flower.

ενθαδε in the first line of the epigram means “here,” not “there.” I assume this is the famed Hagia Sofia in istanbul (then Constantinopolis). I was fortunate to see it when it was open to Muslims and Christians alike, before its recent reconversion.

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the ticket for foreigners was 10$ i remember, for turks cheaper