Meaning of opisthosphendone | Babel Free

Definitions

A plain or ornamented band of fabric, broad in the middle and narrow at the ends, and fastened in the front, used in Ancient Greece to support the hair behind the head.

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Examples

“Female head, in an opisthosphendone and antefixal ornament.”

“[…] her hair, which lightly floats back with her onward movement, is confined in an opisthosphendone and stephane.”

“It is characteristically broad in front and narrow behind, being thus opposite in its arrangement to the opisthosphendone.”

“Her hair is drawn back from the face in a wavy mass, and confined with an opisthosphendone knotted over the forehead.”

“The hair is arranged in loose flying locks, and she wears an opisthosphendone, a band or kerchief with which the hair was caught up behind, and an earring in the shape of a pendant rosette.”

“The mitre was of wool; the opisthosphendone was the part of it wrapping the back-hair; it was sling-shaped.”

“Her hair is gathered in a mass behind, and she wears an embroidered and radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long bordered embroidered chiton with diploidion and looped-up sleeves, bordered himation over her arms, and shoes.”

“Her hair is fastened by means of an opisthosphendone, a type of ancient Greek headband that here crosses her forehead, with another band over the top of her head connecting with a circular band at the back.”

“The hair is thick and wavy and held in place by an opisthosphendone (a headband formed from a piece of fabric that is broad in the middle and narrow at the ends), but with prominent bunches of loose hair over the ears.”

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