Monuments of the early church . Two soldiers in tunic and paludamentum (adorned with the tablion), S. Astcrius, priest, indark tunic and paenula, S. Anastasius (cleric?) in white tunic and yellow pallium. Fig. 181. — Mosaic in the Chapel of S. Yenantius, Lateran to the toga it was a very simple garment; convenience andutility are bound to count for something even in the questionof dress, and it is therefore not strange that the pallium partlysuperseded the toga even in Rome itself. On the other hand,the still greater convenience of the dalmatic and the paenulaaccounts for the subsequent disapp


Monuments of the early church . Two soldiers in tunic and paludamentum (adorned with the tablion), S. Astcrius, priest, indark tunic and paenula, S. Anastasius (cleric?) in white tunic and yellow pallium. Fig. 181. — Mosaic in the Chapel of S. Yenantius, Lateran to the toga it was a very simple garment; convenience andutility are bound to count for something even in the questionof dress, and it is therefore not strange that the pallium partlysuperseded the toga even in Rome itself. On the other hand,the still greater convenience of the dalmatic and the paenulaaccounts for the subsequent disappearance of both toga and THE PALLIUM 405 , or rather their transformation into mere ornamentsand insignia. The pallium, like the toga, was a woollen garment, usuallywhite. It was without decoration, except at the four corners,which were ornamented by designs in tapestry. The pallium. S. Maurus, bishop, in white tunic and dalmatic, dark paenula, and sacred pallium ; S. Sep-timus, deacon, in white tunic and dalmatic, again two soldiers, or courtiers. Baptistery. Middle of the seventh century. was merely a rectangular piece of cloth, three times as long asbroad, and it was wrapped about the body in a very simpleand natural manner. It was commonly worn as follows: one-third of the stuff hung down in front of the left shoulder tothe knee and enveloped the upper arm; the remaining two-thirds was drawn across the back, under the right arm, and 406 DliESS across the front (enveloping the whole body to the ankles), andagain thrown over the left shoulder, where it had to be fastenedwith a pin, or simply over the left fore arm (Figs. 96,118, 119,140). The pallium was commonly worn over the tunic, but thephilosophers expressed the simplicity of their life by wearing itwithout a tunic, leaving the right shoulder bare after the man-ner of the tunica exomis. It was so worn by Ju


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