LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
Academy · Antiquities

Ampechone

ἀμπεχόνη

Ampechone (ἀμπεχόνη, ἀμπέχονον, ἀμπεχόνιον), a shawl or scarf, worn by women over the χιτὼν or inner garment. [See TUNICA and PALLIUM]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.