08-05-2006, 03:54 PM
Quote:Than you can look at my avatar: It is taken out of the Stilicho-Dyptichon and shows Serena, Stilichos wife. She is wearing a thight-armed undertunica, a chiton (both belted under the breast) and above a palla (the short late-roman one). It is an ivory-carving, maybe that there were no clavi on the clothing, maybe that they just were not shown.
Hello Barbara.
It is possible that Serena's tunic does have clavii. Faint paralell lines are visible over her left knee which might indicate this. If you can not see the originals perhaps a good quality photograph might help. I spotted the swastika interlaced pattern on the upper right clavi of Stilcho in the same dyptych and included that in the reconstruction used in Roman Military Clothing 3. As far as I know no one else had seen that before or at least included it in any reconstructions that I had seen previously.
I have seen a number of reconstructed women's costume worn by late Roman re-enactors over her in the UK. However none of them appear to look like the sources illustrated here, most seem to have bare arms for example and undecorated tunics. I would like to know your opinion on this.
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.
