Trabea
Trabea (plural trabeae ) in Rome denoted the toga of particularly high-ranking personalities adorned with wide purple stripes . It was originally supposedly worn by the kings, in historical times then on special occasions primarily by Roman knights ( equites ). Occasionally the Roman knighthood itself was called that.
The adjective trabeatus referred to a man who was in a state dress . In late antiquity the trabea became more and more splendid and was also referred to as toga picta ("colorful toga"); it now became the typical official garb of the consuls. These appeared publicly, for example at the opening of chariot races, usually in the trabea; this was now awarded directly by the emperor and each individually designed.
literature
- Liza Cleland, Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Greek and Roman dress from A to Z. Routledge, London et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-22661-5 , p. 197, ( excerpt in the Google book search).
- Jonathan Edmondson, Alison Keith (eds.): Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (= Phoenix. Supplementary Volume: Studies in Greek and Roman social history. Vol. 1). University of Toronto Press, Toronto et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8020-9319-6 , pp. 13, 27, 32, 42, 43, 217-237, ( excerpt from Google book search).
- Hans Gabelmann : Roman children in toga praetexta. In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute. Vol. 100, 1985, ISSN 0070-4415 , pp. 497-499, ( excerpt in the Google book search).
- Philip Smith: Toga. In: William Smith (Ed.): A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. John Murray, London 1875, ( online copy on LacusCurtius ).