Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Liniger

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LI'NIGER. In a general sense, wearing linen garments; but the word is specially used to designate the Egyptian goddess Isis (dea linigera, Ovid. Met. i. 747.); and a certain class of priests ministering in her temples, who went bald-headed and naked as far as the waist, below which they were covered with a long linen petticoat; whence they are styled linigeri calvi. (Mart. xii. 29. 18. Juv. Sat. vi. 533.) Both these characteristics are exemplified by the annexed figure (Liniger/1.1), representing an Egyptian priest of the kind described, from a painting in the temple of Isis at Pompeii.

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  Liniger/1.1