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I would agree with John D. here, given the highly symbolic and hieratic
quality of those Byzantine images. The pallium is from at least before Gregory
I’s time the symbol par excellence of priestly/episcopal authority (later
the “stole” for priests in general). It seems as if the Virgin is
presenting Christ and his priestly garment.
jbw
John B. Wickstrom
Department of History
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> You're right: it's much shorter than my examples of what I've been calling
> _pallae_ and not suitable for a headscarf (as in "La Velata"). It's what I would
> think of as a maniple (_manipulus_, _mappula_). The latter is attested
> ecclesiastically from the sixth century onward.
>
> --JD
>
> On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 1:03 pm, Diana WrIght wrote:
>
> > John Dillon wrote:
> > > 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
> > > 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
> > > http://www.aissca.it/aissca/immagini/SanGenn1ImageMosaic2.jpg
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > John Dillon
> >
> > We 15th C people call them "handkerchiefs" & refer you to the issue in
> >
> > /Othello/. Not little dingies such as we know now, not big enough for
> >
> > headscarves. And probably not useful for runny noses. They & sashes
> >
> > become significant as gifts from Ottoman officials to Venetian or
> > Genoese, representing closeness or intimacy.. The
> > DC
> > has a large collection of them, Greek & Turkish, embroidered,
> > sometimes
> > quite wonderfully.
> >
> > DW
>
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