Palla (robe)

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Agrippina the Younger with Palla

A palla (lat. Palla) is a long, square-cut garment that descends over the feet and was worn over other clothes by women in the Roman Empire when going out. It is the counterpart to the coat worn by men, the pallium . But there is also evidence that women also wore the pallium. Singers and tragedians also wore the palla.

Part of the traditional wedding attire was the yellow- red palla galbeata .

literature

  • Ursula Scharf: Street clothes of Roman women (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. 585). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-631-46781-8 , pp. 90-114, (Zugl .: Frankfurt am Main, Universität, Dissertation, 1992).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marcus Terentius Varro : De lingua Latina 8.28; 9.48
  2. ^ Ingemar König : Vita romana. From daily life in ancient Rome. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-17950-1 , p. 36.