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Definition of Sakkos

1. saccos [n SAKKOSES or SAKKOI] - See also: saccos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sakkos

Literary usage of Sakkos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Athenian Lekythoi: With Outline Drawing in Glaze Varnish on a White Ground by Arthur Fairbanks (1907)
"The hair is in a sakkos; the inner angle of the eye is closed, and a dotted pupil is drawn against it. In the field a branch with scrolls. ..."

2. Athenian Lekythoi: With Outline Drawing in Glaze Varnish on a White Ground by Arthur Fairbanks (1907)
"The hair is in a sakkos; the inner angle of the eye is closed, and a dotted pupil is drawn against it. In the field a branch with scrolls. ..."

3. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1835)
"When the Patriarchs robed, the Patriarch of Moscow put on the sakkos of St. Sergius ... There is written all round each sakkos, from the sides to the skirt, ..."

4. Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora by Susan I. Rotroff, John Howard Oakley (1992)
"Both the chiton and sakkos are decorated with dots of dilute glaze; the string of the sakkos is ... She wears a sakkos. Preliminary drawing; surface worn. ..."

5. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical by Gloria S. Merker (2000)
"sakkos wrapped around lower back of head; ends of cloth arc wrapped flat over top of head and tucked in below ears; flat curls on cranium. Well- made piece. ..."

6. The Life of the Greeks and Romans: Described from Antique Monuments by Ernst Karl Guhl, W. Koner (1902)
"223, b, i, Fig. 229, and the group of women to the right in Fig. 232). The modifications of the sakkos, and the way of its ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the Eastern churches the only vestment that has any true analogy with the dalmatic or liturgical upper tunic is the sakkos, the tunic worn by deacons and ..."

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