κήρωμα

A. = κηρωτή, wax-salve, cerate, Hp. Acut.(Sp.)15,33 (both pl.), Orib. Fr. 63 (pl.).

2. layer of mud or clay forming the floor of the wrestling-ring in the times of the Empire, Lat. ceroma, locus exercitii utilis . . aequali et molli ceromate stratus, Cael.Aur. Salut.Praec. 35 (ed.V.Rose Anecd.Gr. 2.199), cf. Plu. 2.638c, Plin. HN 35.168, Mart. 4.19.5, al.; a ceromate nos haphe excepit, out of the mud into the dust, Sen.Ep. 57.1: metaph. for the wrestling-ring or wrestling, ἐν παλαίστραις καὶ κηρώμασι Plu. 2.790f, cf. Plin. HN 35.5.

3. waxed tablet or board, IG 7.413.59 (S. C. de Orop.).