board, plank, timber, σ. πτελεΐνη IG 1(2).313.133, cf. 22.1672.168, Plb. 1.22.9, AP 9.269 (Antip. Thess.), Act.Ap. 27.44, etc.; σ. ἄξοος Call. Fr. 105:—hence anything made thereof,
door, Hom. always in pl., folding doors, Il. 12.453, 461, Od. 22.128, etc.; κολληταὶ σ. Il. 9.583; σ. πυκινῶς ἀραρυῖαι, δικλίδες Od. 2.344, cf. Il. 21.535; πύλῃσιν ἐπικεκλιμέναι σ. 12.121: rarely in sg., E. Or. 1221.
wooden platform, scaffold, or stage, ἐφʼ ὑψηλῆς σ. Od. 21.51.
wooden floor, esp. shipʼs deck, E. Hel. 1556, Archimel. ap. Ath. 5.209c, Luc. JTr. 48.
bench, seat, SIG 244B 61 (Delph., iv B.C.), Herod. 7.5.
lid of box, v.l. in LXX 4 Ki. 12.9.
in pl., wooden tablets for writing on, E. Alc. 967 (lyr.): esp. at Athens and elsewh., tablets covered with gypsum, on which were written all sorts of public notices, esp. the causes for hearing in the law-courts, Ar. V. 349, 848; laws to be proposed, Decr. ap. And. 1.84; laws corrected by the Thesmothetae, Aeschin. 3.39; lists of officers, Lys. 26.10; accounts, IG 1(2).374.190; names of debtors, D. 25.70 (in sg.), Isoc. 15.237: sg. also in SIG 975.30 (Delos, iii B.C.); at Rome, of the tables on
pl., painted panels, pictures, SIG 977a10 (Delos, ii B.C.).
plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, ζῶντα πρὸς σανίδα διε- (v.l. προσδιε-) πασσάλευσαν Hdt. 7.33; σανίδι προσπασσαλεύσαντες Id. 9.120, cf. Cratin. 341; ἐν τῇ σ. δῆσαι, πρὸς τῇ σ. δεῖν Ar. Th. 931, 940; σανίσι προσδῆσαι Duris 67 J.