Pterodracon - AI-generated imagined folklore illustration.
AI-generated imagined Pterodracon sawing marble with human-shaped hands. The human face, hands, back wings and work follow the text; claws, feet, horns, color and detailed body form are invented. Pterodracon is a descriptive display transliteration.
Overview
The spirit in §§60–63 rolls into Solomon’s presence. It has a dragon’s limbs except for its feet, a human face and hands, and wings on its back. It identifies itself as the so-called winged dragon, which the translator records in Greek as pterodrakon. Pterodracon is a display transliteration of that designation, not a claim that a personal proper name is established.
The demon says it has been made into a god among people and describes sexual encounters in a spirit form and unusual offspring. The text’s difficult astronomical and reproductive language is retained as a feature of the witness, rather than expanded into a modern species biology or a complete religious practice. The winged dragon is distinct from the preceding three-headed spirit; it is not given three heads.
As it speaks, a spirit issues from its mouth and burns the stored frankincense wood and logs. Solomon then asks its counter-power, receiving Bazazath in the second heaven. After invoking that angel he condemns the dragon to saw marble for the temple. Human feet are not explicitly established: the passage excludes its feet from the dragon-limb description without fully describing their alternative shape.
Origins & earliest records
The selected documented witness is F. C. Conybeare’s1898 English translation of the Greek Testament of Solomon, following Fleck’s edition of a Paris manuscript. Its narrated temple-era setting is not a verified date of composition or folklore invention. Jewish and Christian elements and difficult readings are retained with source attribution.
Records & interpretation
§§60–63 and note94; Greek descriptive designation recorded, feet left uncertain.
Selected bibliography
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The Testament of Solomon, selected episode and editorial notes
§§60–63 and note94; Greek descriptive designation recorded, feet left uncertain.
Family & connections
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References
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- Primary text in a historical scholarly editionThe Testament of Solomon: Conybeare translation and notesResearch access: 2026-10-10
Image credits
AI-generated imagined folklore illustrationPterodracon - AI-generated imagined folklore illustration.
AI-generated imagined Pterodracon sawing marble with human-shaped hands. The human face, hands, back wings and work follow the text; claws, feet, horns, color and detailed body form are invented. Pterodracon is a descriptive display transliteration.
