Basilium
βασίλειον
Basilium (βασίλειον, βασίλεια), a tall headdress peculiar to kings of Egypt and to the Egyptian goddess Isis. (Diod. 1.47; Plut. de Is. et Osir. 19 (2.358); Schol. in Aristoph. Pl. 926; C. Inscr. Lat. 2.3386; Orelli, 2510.)
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.