Archæol. [a. Gr. σφενδόνη a sling, head-band, etc.]
1. A head-band or fillet, shaped like a common form of sling, worn by women in ancient Greece.
1850. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 363 (ed. 2), 453. On the hair…. The sphendone surrounded with rays.
1872. Head, Sel. Grk. Coins in Electrotype Brit. Mus., 6. Head of Parthenope, wearing sphendone, to right.
2. An area composed of elongated sloping sides with a rounded end.
1847. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 290. 281. The Messenian stadium, which is surrounded by colonnades, has 16 rows of seats in the sphendone.
