Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scutula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SCUT'ULA (σκυτάλη). A wooden roller or cylinder placed under objects of great weight for the purpose of assisting in moving them. Caes. B. C. iii. 40.

2. (Diminutive of SCUTRA.) A small dish or platter, of which nothing decisive has been ascertained; but supposed from other analogies of the word to have possessed a diamond or lozenge shape. Mart. xi. 31. 19.

3. A segment of marble, or other artificial material, cut into the shape of a diamond or rhomb, and used for inlaying floors or pavements, like the three white patterns in the centre division of the annexed example (Scutulua/3.1), which represents a portion of the ancient mosaic pavement now remaining in the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, at Rome. Vitruv. vii. 1. 4. Pallad. i. 9. 5.

4. A check, or diamond figure woven in the pattern of a piece of cloth, like the border on the drapery of the annexed figure (Scutulua/4.1) from a fictile vase. Plin. H. N. viii. 74.

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  Scutulua/3.1
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  Scutulua/4.1