Meaning of pteruge | Babel Free

Definitions

A flexible feather-like strip of material at the edge of body or head armour, particularly used in Greco-Roman times, such as the flaps of a linothorax or the strips hanging from a Roman legionary's belt.

historical

Examples

“In Metope VI a mounted officer, probably the Emperor Trajan himself, wears a lorica squamata of very small scales with a double⟳ skirt of pteruges and a cingulum about the waist.”

“Under this come⟳ three fragments with vertical pteruges that are rectangular with rounded lower ends, and another fragment with pteruges angled up to the right, which perhaps form⟳ a swirl at the left hip.”

“Internal leather straps also fasten the eighteen pteruges, which are arranged in two overlapping rows. Each pteruge, which expands slightly at the end⟳, is constructed of a leather backing superimposed with a steel border⟳ with a boxed edge and a raised row of leaves pointing inward, the center filled with riveted mail.”

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