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Statue of Livia Drusilla wearing a stola and palla. The stola (Classical Latin: [ˈst̪ɔ.ɫ̪a]) (pl. stolae) was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga that was worn by men. [1] It was also called vestis longa in Latin literary sources, [2] pointing to its length. [3]
The palla was an elegant cloak or mantle that was wrapped around the body. It was worn outside the house by (affluent) Roman women. It was worn outside the house by (affluent) Roman women. It was a luxurious version of the Roman men's pallium .
Statue of Livia Drusilla wearing a stola and palla. Besides tunics, married citizen women wore a simple garment known as a stola (pl. stolae) which was associated with traditional Roman female virtues, especially modesty. [15] [16] In the early Roman Republic, the stola was reserved for patrician women.
Eumachia is dressed in a palla over a tunic and stola, in Hellenistic style. Eumachia has an idealized portrait. [ 13 ] Palla, delicate women's poses, features, and material, was the aim of Rome's social control approach, which alludes to Livia , whose statues popularized the representation of the stola. [ 14 ]
Pallium over a chiton. The pallium was a Roman cloak.It was similar in form to the palla, which had been worn by respectable Roman women since the mid-Republican era. [1] It was a rectangular length of cloth, [2] as was the himation in ancient Greece.
A peplos (Greek: ὁ πέπλος) is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by c. 500 BC, during the late Archaic and Classical period. It was a long, rectangular cloth with the top edge folded down about halfway, so that what was the top of the rectangle was now draped below the waist, and the bottom ...
A female, typically shown wearing an Under Tunic, Roman Stola and Palla garments, stands with one arm resting on or holding an anchor.This is often an Anchored cross meaning hope [7] and is the primary symbol of the statue.
During the New Testament narrative, Judea was ruled by either local client kings to the Roman Empire or as a Roman province under Roman officials. Toga. Probably the most significant item in the ancient Roman wardrobe was the toga, a one-piece woolen garment that draped loosely around the shoulders and down the body. Togas could be wrapped in ...