1º_ It is the name of the tefillin ("Jewish ritual object") of its Hellenized version 966; 965; 955; 945; 954; 964; 951; 961; 953; 959; 957; (phylaktérion "protective amulet") and later Latinized phylacteria ("phylacteries"), as a way of differentiating the same reliquary used by early Christians. 2º_ As these small boxes contain scrolls of parchment with biblical texts, in the Middle Ages was called phylactery, by similarity, to the drawings of ribbons and other sheets of curved ends or rolled with some quote or legend, typical of heraldry. See phylatery .
