A.cloth for wiping the hands, towel, napkin, Hdt.4.64, Ar.Fr.502, X.Cyr.1.3.5, PCair.Zen. 87.8, al. (iii B.C.): the Scythians used scalps as χειρόμακτρα, Hdt.l.c.: hence “Σκυθιστὶ χ. ἐκκεκαρμένος” S.Fr.473.
II. head-cloth, used by women, Sapph.44, Hecat.358 J., and perhaps so in Hdt.2.122, χ. χρύσεον, [Written “χειρώμακτρον” PRev.Laws 94.4 (iii B.C.), PEnteux.38.3,9 (iii B.C.), but χειρόμακτρον PCair.Zen. Il.cc. (iii B.C.):