01-13-2013, 03:47 AM
Robert, you wrote:
> you sure come across them quite often in art,
But do you? In fact what you see is a repertoire of tunic decorations which are most familiarly known from Coptic survivals. When you see clavii, segmenta and so on, it does not tell you how the garment was constructed. In fact, they were common to other garment constructions in the fifth and sixth centuries and continued to be so long after the fall of the western provinces.
The Metropolitan Museum tunic I mention in the article is an example of a transitional form - made in the Coptic manner with some of the familiar decoration (clavii), but then partially tailored.
Timothy
> you sure come across them quite often in art,
But do you? In fact what you see is a repertoire of tunic decorations which are most familiarly known from Coptic survivals. When you see clavii, segmenta and so on, it does not tell you how the garment was constructed. In fact, they were common to other garment constructions in the fifth and sixth centuries and continued to be so long after the fall of the western provinces.
The Metropolitan Museum tunic I mention in the article is an example of a transitional form - made in the Coptic manner with some of the familiar decoration (clavii), but then partially tailored.
Timothy
