The Gallic Coat

[Cassius Tullius]

In H.H. Scullard's Roman Britain - Outpost of the Empire, published by Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1979. Page 21. There is a black and white photo of a pottery mold found at Corbridge on Hadrian's Wall. It depicts Taranis, a Celtic God mentioned by the Roman poet Lucas.

He carries a shield on his left and his right arm is partly extended so that his hand rests on some object about waist high. He wears a short cloak like garment that fastens with a brooch at the right shoulder and comes down to mid thigh. You can see the overlap of the cloak in the front but his right arm and tunic sleeve jut out as if from an armhole in the garment. Presumably, or at least there may be, an armhole facilitates the other arm covered by the shield. There are, top to bottom, verticle lines that could easily be pleats or upholstering as you would expect on a padded garment. The lines conform to the lay of the cloak.

[Joze Noriker]

@Claire: here text of the Salvianus: "Re-reading my post and the books, I should clarify: Croom identifies the Gallic coat as the wide sleeved overtunic, (...)"

I wrote the same, that on my link was "the gallic tunic" because, if you understand German, here the begining of the text of the user "Saschat" is "Laut "John Peter Wild" (NESAT-Mitglied + Bonner Jahrbücher) ist der "gallische Mantel" ein Halbkreistuch, teilweise mit und ohne Kaputze getragen." Link for zitat:
http://forum.hassiaceltica.de/index.php?...9&pageNo=2

In German language is difference between the "gallic coat" and the "gallic mantle":
1. is the tunic, like my term "gallic tunic" = like you meintoined it in your topic; like here on this link of the Vicus:
http://www.vicus.org.uk/kitguide/clothing.htm or here the same variante:
http://www.rentapeasant.co.uk/romanogaulish.html
2. the gallic coat =mantle, is like Wild's description of half-rounded coat without sleeves = paenula without the hood variante but i think here on link the man's gallic coat has the hood behind (dismiss interpretation):
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/army-7.shtml

I used term gallic coat in variante 1.

But i found a couple of dissmis descriptions about the gallic coat dress and the archaeological items:
someone called the cucullus or the paenula with the term gallic coat (because, the paenula has form without the hood, too; with hood or without the hood) and someone described the gallic tunica form = with sleeves with term gallic coat.
here is text, that the paenula is the gallic coat (by the paenula):
http://www.roemermuseum-osterburken.de/index.php?id=481 "Der gallische Mantel wird als paenula bezeichnet." Gallic coat called the paenula.

But on this link was meintoined dress caracalla: i am looking for the evidence of it; i didn't found it. I know the textual descriptions for it - but noone visual item.

Look at here another evidence and text on German about the gallo roman dress and the figures: they use term "gallic kitel" = gallic "tunic" for the variante 1 (above my point), figure 1. and 2. and the term "gallic coat=mantel" for the paenula, fig. 3. and 4

link: http://www.fg-zinnfiguren.de/lesesaal/Re...nimane.pdf

Joze