τελαμών

A. broad strap or band for bearing or supporting anything (from τελα‐ 'bear' (v. Τλάω, τελάσσαι), whence also the hero Telamon took his name):

1. leathern strap or belt, freq. in Hom., Il. 17.290; δύω τελαμῶνε περὶ στήθεσσι τετάσθην, ἤτοι ὁ μὲν σάκεος, ὁ δὲ φασγάνου, of Ajax, 14.404; for the sword alone, ξίφος σὺν κολεῷ τε καὶ ἐϋτμήτῳ τελαμῶνι 7.304, cf. 23.825; μαχαίρας εἶχον . . ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων 18.598; περὶ στήθεσσι . . χρύσεος ἦν τ. Od. 11.610; for the shield, Il. 2.388, 11.38, 18.480; it passed over the shoulder and bore the chief weight, 5.796, 16.803, cf. Hdt. 1.171; τ. φαεινός Il. 12.401; χάλκεος Hes. Sc. 222.

2. broad linen bandage for wounds, Hdt. 7.181, Antyll. ap. Orib. 7.9.1, Herod. Med. ap. eund.10.18.15, Sor. 1.28, al.; ἀμφὶ τραύματ’ . . τελαμῶνας βαλεῖν E. Ph. 1669; also, a long linen bandage or roller, for swathing mummies, Hdt. 2.86, cf. AP 11.125.

3. band for the hair, Callistr. Stat. 11.

II. in Architecture, Τελαμῶνες were colossal male figures used as bearing-pillars, being the Roman name for Ἄτλαντες, Vitr. 6.7.6.

2. base of a στήλη, ἁ στάλα καὶ ὁ τελαμὼν (prob. written τελαμὼ, v. Mnemos. 58.28) ἱαρὰ τᾶς Ἥρας IG 4.517 (Argos, v B.C.); [ἀναγράψαι εἰς ς]τήλην λευκοῦ λίθου [κα]ὶ ἀναθ[εῖναι αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τελα]μ[ῶ]νος prob. rest. in CIG 2056d (loc.inc., perh. Odessus); simply = στήλη, ἀναγράψαι . . εἰς τελαμῶνα λευκοῦ λίθου καὶ ἀναθεῖναι κτλ. SIG 731.41 (Tomi, i B.C.), al., cf. Milet. 3p.377No. 153.39, BMus.Inscr. 1007 (Cyzicus, ii A.D.), etc.