05-27-2005, 04:20 PM
Quoting Croom (2000) again: apparently they're mentioned in Martial (Ep. 14.28) and in the Golden Ass (4.31), Ovid (Art of Love 2.209), Juvenal (Sat 9.50) There's also a wall painting of a women with a tasselled parasol at Pompeii (now in the Musee du Louvre) and a bas relief of one from Avezzano, Italy.