Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tintinnabulum

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. 

TINTINNA'BULUM (κώδων). A bell (Plaut. Trin. iv. 2. 162.); made in similar shapes, and used for much the same purposes as at the present day; viz., at the door of a house (Suet. Aug. 91. Compare Sen. Ira. iii. 35.), for calling the servants; at the baths, to give notice when the water was ready (Mart. xiv. 163.); at the sacrifice (Plaut. Pseud. i. 3. 112.); and for fastening round the necks of animals, both as an object of ornament and use. The illustration (Tintinnabulum/1.1) represents five bells of different forms from ancient originals; the two on the left side at the top are common sheep-bells; the two below them, attached to a flat band, were used for a horse's breast-belt; the other two are hand-bells of a larger description.

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  Tintinnabulum/1.1