medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Looks like what I, & probably most women, would consider a shawl. It
would be warming, or you could tie it over one shoulder & carry a baby
or groceries in it.
DW
John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Oops! I gave the wrong URL for the painting from Naples. See:
> http://www.aissca.it/aissca/immagini/SanGenn1ImageMosaic2.jpg
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
>
> On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 12:36 pm, I wrote:
>
>
>> On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 12:07 pm, Diana Wright wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have blown the S. Susanna picture way up with Gimp, & while the
>>> thing
>>> Jesus is holding is still not perfectly clear, it looks like a
>>> rotulus
>>> to me. The thing the central woman/Mary is holding looks very like
>>>
>> a
>>
>>> Byzantine scarf/handkerchief with a decorative woven band at each
>>>
>> end.
>>
>> Here's the image again:
>> http://tinyurl.com/23y7uy
>>
>> I agree with you completely about the thing that the central
>> woman/Mary is holding. Do you have a name for it? I have been
>> calling it a _palla_, though classical ones were much wider than
>> either this example or the one worn by the third-century orant "La
>> Velata" in the cemetery of Priscilla:
>> http://membres.lycos.fr/siteimageedl/paleo/photos/11.jpg
>> closer image (badly pinked):
>> http://research.yale.edu/divdl/images/eikon/ei0350s.jpg
>> or the rather longer ones held/worn by the two female figures in this
>> fifth-century painting in the Catacombe di San Gennaro in Naples:
>> http://membres.lycos.fr/siteimageedl/paleo/photos/11.jpg
>>
>> Best,
>> John Dillon
>>
>
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