Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sagma

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. 

SAG'MA (σάγμα). A pack-saddle made on a frame, and employed for sumpter horses and beasts of burden, to receive the panniers or loaded goods, as contradistinguished from the ordinary riding-pad (ephippium), which was soft and stuffed, and had no tree (Veg. Vet. iii. 59. 1. Isidor. Orig. xx. 16. 5.). The example (Sagma/1.1) is copied from a Pompeian painting; and similar saddles are also exhibited on the column of Trajan. The frame projecting from the side is intended to receive the lowest packages, and thus constitute a broad base for piling up the goods all round.

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  Sagma/1.1