Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Spathalium

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. 

SPATHAL'IUM (σπαθάλιον). An ornament worn by women round the wrist (Plin. H. N. xiii. 52. Tertull. Cult. foem. 13.); which is supposed to have had small bells attached as pendants to it, as in the example (Spathalium/1.1), from an original discovered in a Roman sepulchre; and to have received its name from the resemblance it bore to a branch of the palm-tree with its pendant capsule (spatha) containing the flower and fruit.

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  Spathalium/1.1