medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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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