Crepundia
（
τὰ σπάργανα). A generic term for children's playthings,
such as rattles, dolls, toy hatchets, swords, etc. The name is also given to objects of a
similar description tied about the necks of children, either as amulets or for pur
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Child with Crepundia. (Museo Pio-Clementino.)
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poses of identification (Plaut.
Mil. Glor. v. 6;
Cist. iv. 1, 13;
Rud. iv. 4;
Oed. Tyr. 1035). Specimens of
these are represented as worn on the neck of a child in a statue of the Museo PioClementino,
copied in the accompanying engraving —viz., a half-moon (
lunula) on the top of the right shoulder; then a double axe (
securicula
ancipes); next a bucket (
situla argenteola); a sort of flower, not
mentioned; a little sword (
ensiculus aureolus); a little hand (
manicula); then another half-moon; a dolphin (
delphin), etc. See
Amuletum.
