Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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us Csesar, Augustus, Tiberius, and Claudius inClarac, Musee de Sculpture, Nos. 916, 924, 912 A, 936 B).The soldiers on the monuments of imperial times wear the tunicaunderneath their armour or sagum. About the time of Commodussleeves were added to both male and female tunics (tunicamanicata), covering the arm almost to the wrist; in a late Romanbas-relief we even see a prolongation of the sleeve resemblinga cuff ; this kind of tunica is also called dalmatica. At a later 1 1 482 THE STOLA. date two or three tunics were put on in cold weather: Augustusis said to have worn four in the winter. The tunic nearest to thebody was called subucula; the one over this, intusium or supparm.A tunic with a purple edge was the privilege of senators andknights, the sign of the ordo senatorius being one broad stripe,that of the ordo equester two narrower ones; the former ornamentwas called clams latus, the latter clavus angustus, whence thedistinction between tunica laticlavia and tunica angusticlavia.
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Fig. 469. Women also used to wear a double tunica, the one nearest tothe body (tunica interior) being a close-fitting sleeveless chemisereaching down over the knee. No girdle was required for it;a thin band (mammillare, strophium) served to support the bosom.Above the lower tunica the long stola fell in many folds : as to itscut and the way of putting it on we refer the reader to ourremarks about the simple Doric chiton of Greek women. Like THE PALLA. 483 this, the stola was an oblong chemise, cut open on the two uppersides, the open ends being fastened on both shoulders by means ofclasps (compare the statue of Livia in Mus. Borbon., vol. iii.Tav. 37). Underneath the bosom the stola was fastened to thebody by means of a girdle, through which it was pulled, so thatits lower edge just touched the ground.In case the tunica had sleeves, the stolaworn over it had none, and vice versa.The sleeves of the tunica or stola werecut open, and the ends fastened togetherby means of buttons or clasp

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