Cervical
προσκεφάλαιον
Cervical (προσκεφάλαιον, ποτίκρανον) properly denotes a pillow or cushion to support the head or shoulder, on a bed or dining couch (Mart. 14.146; Suet. Nero 6; Plin. Nat. 20.217, 28.47). The word is also used, like its Greek equivalents, in a less special sense to denote any cushion (Juv. 6.353; Petron. 32, 1; 78, 5; Plato, Rep. i. p. 328 C; Theocr. 15.2). [PULVINUS]
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.