Capitium (clothing)
The capitium ( Latin for "head cap") is a kind of headscarf or hood .
Roman Empire
In the 4th century, capitium is found in Nonius Marcellus ( De compendiosa doctrina ) as a name for a headgear. This meaning changed in the 5th century to a name for the headhole of the tunica . As a woman's dress, the capitium was worn over the upper part of the body and over the breast.
medicine
In medicine is also a cap-like head bandage as Capitium referred. It is formed with the help of a square cloth that is folded into a triangle . Sometimes the capitium was made five-lobed by cutting.
literature
- August Mau : Capitium 2 & 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Sp. 1526 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Package: The Roman tunic. A contribution to the peregrinization of ancient clothing. Wißner, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-89639-370-7 , p. 82
- ^ Matthias Package: The Roman tunic. A contribution to the peregrinization of ancient clothing. Wißner, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-89639-370-7 , p. 75.
- ↑ Ursula Scharf: Street clothes of Roman women (= European university publications. Series 3: History and their auxiliary sciences. 585). P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-631-46781-8 , p. 38, (At the same time: Frankfurt am Main, Universität, Dissertation, 1992).
- ^ Fritz Holle: Outline of the entire surgery. Part 2. 7th, completely revised edition. Springer, Berlin et al. 1960, pp. 1799 f., ( Online ).