Antiq. [Gr. στεφάνη, related to στέφανος crown.] A kind of diadem or coronet, represented in statuary as worn by the goddess Hera and other deities; also worn by military commanders.
1847. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 425. 505. The three figures on vases with high stephane (ὄγκος ?) seem to be statues in the stage costume of Hercules, Hermes and a third.
1858. Birch, Anc. Pottery, I. 407. Hera is adorned with the stephane, or diadem.
1875. F. Hueffer, trans. Guhl & Koner’s Life Greeks & Romans, 235. The helmets of the common soldiers were generally without ornaments, those of the officers only being decorated with figures or patterns; the cap, visor, and stephane were frequently covered with these.
