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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Author
Hecataeus of Abdera
Reference
Fragment 358 line 1
Quotation
Σαπφὼ δ᾽ ὅταν λέγῃ ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ τῶν μελῶν πρὸς τὴν Ἀφροδίτην ῾fr. 44 B':' χειρόμακτρα δὲ καγγονων πορφύρᾳ καταυταμενἀτατι Μνᾶσις πέμψ᾽ ἀπὺ Φωκάας δῶρα τίμια [καγγόνων], κόσμον λέγει κεφαλῆς τὰ χειρόμακτρα, ὡς καὶ Ἑκαταῖος δηλοῖ ἢ ὁ γεγραφὼς τὰς περιηγήσεις ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ ἐπιγραφομένῃ ῾FHG I 25':' ‘γυναῖκες δ᾽ ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς ἔχουσι χειρόμακτρα.'
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Women
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Clothing
Visual Work: Textile
Medium/a Ornamenting
Towels, head coverings
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
The women
Notes
Preserved in Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 9.79
Item Identifier
A02377
Determination
Derived directly from text