Aegides

The robe and aegides of the statues of Minerva the Greeks have made in imitation of the Lybians, for except that the robe among the Lybians is of leather and the fringes of the aegis are not serpents but strips of leather, the adorning is entirely the same. And the very name is an acknowledgement that the vesture of the palladium is derived from Lybia, for the Lybian women put around the robe their goat skins tasselled and stained with madder (ἐρευθεδάνω) and from these goat skins, (ἐχ δὲ τῶν αἰγἑων τουτἑων) the Greeks have taken the word aegis.

The outside string is balls of carnelian. The centre figure is Hathor in ivory. Beneath it is a necklace of “blue-glaze aegides of […]

[…] metal face-masks that are occasionally worn as plastrons by suncult kings in Africa. Wainwright remarks that similar things have been called aegides.¹

We normally do not attempt to record in the Bulletin those publications of the staff which appear under other aegides, but this is of such general interest […]

Herodotus compared the goat-skin dresses (aegides) of the Libyan women in his own day to the aegis of Athena, the only difference being that whilst the former had leathern fringes, that of the goddess had one of snakes. […]