Stemma
(
στέμμα).
1.
Properly a garland or wreath bound with fillets of wool and worn as a chaplet. (See
Corona;
Infula.)
2.
A long scroll decorated with garlands and bearing a list of the family names. It was hung
upon the ancestral busts that stood in their cases or niches (
aediculae)
in the
atrium of the Roman house. (See
Imagines.) Whence
3.
a pedigree or family tree (
Juv.viii. 1).