12-27-2005, 07:59 PM
Mithras wrote:
Mea Culpa! Roman Military Clothing 1, pages 21,37. The painted portrait is illustrated in Roman Military Clothing 2 page 40. It is now in the Oriental Institute Chicago. A grey-green scarf is worn by a soldier in a tavern painting from Pompeii. It is worn beneath his Paenula which was a recommended practice by Pliny the Elder no less, because of the wide neck opening of the paenula. Nat Hist XXIV,18.
Aitor wrote:
Martyrdom of Pionius, 15.5 The scarf here is called by its Greek name Maphorion.
Primvs Pavlvs wrote:
The first part of this question is the easier to answer. Yes, it is possible. Soldiers also received gifts of clothing from home and probably bought other items in the settlements outside the military bases they may also have made items like a scarf themselves by re-using old tunics. The scarf worn by Apinosus could well be a locally produced product of native type. It is very similar in appearance to the two iron age examples found in Denmark. They are both fringed like the one worn by Apinosus and measure 1.37m long. See M. Hald, Olddanske Tekstiler, Nordiske Fortidsminder 5, Copenhagen 1950 or the J.P.Wild article mentioned above.
Graham.
Quote:Colour? Mine was green because I'd read that green is the only colour mentioned anywhere (though I forget the reference). The 'suspected legionary' painted in an Egyptian portrait has a white knotted scarf.
Mea Culpa! Roman Military Clothing 1, pages 21,37. The painted portrait is illustrated in Roman Military Clothing 2 page 40. It is now in the Oriental Institute Chicago. A grey-green scarf is worn by a soldier in a tavern painting from Pompeii. It is worn beneath his Paenula which was a recommended practice by Pliny the Elder no less, because of the wide neck opening of the paenula. Nat Hist XXIV,18.
Aitor wrote:
Quote:The amnesic source quoter's corner...
I remember (he, he, he... ) somebody quoting the Act of one of those Late Roman Galilean martyrs who was almost choked with a focale by the soldiers arresting him...
Anybody having more and younger neurones can remember the exact quote?
Martyrdom of Pionius, 15.5 The scarf here is called by its Greek name Maphorion.
Primvs Pavlvs wrote:
Quote:Mr. Sumner,[/quote]
Is it likely that soldiers would have been wearing clothing, and accessories produced by non-Romans? thus allowing clothing that would have been cut to shape?
The first part of this question is the easier to answer. Yes, it is possible. Soldiers also received gifts of clothing from home and probably bought other items in the settlements outside the military bases they may also have made items like a scarf themselves by re-using old tunics. The scarf worn by Apinosus could well be a locally produced product of native type. It is very similar in appearance to the two iron age examples found in Denmark. They are both fringed like the one worn by Apinosus and measure 1.37m long. See M. Hald, Olddanske Tekstiler, Nordiske Fortidsminder 5, Copenhagen 1950 or the J.P.Wild article mentioned above.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
