Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . , to be the same asrofi, ttXIkoituq toiq yvi( tovq fC£i^pv(])a\ovc, but the word hasnevertheless a wider signification. Such hair-nets are not visibleon vase-paintings, but they may be seen on the carefully exe-cuted frescoes of Hercuianeum and Pomjjeii. See Mus. 49 ; vi. 18; viii. 4 ; and fig. 1, infra. They seem to consistof gold threads, which agrees witli Juven. ii. 96 : Reticuluuique comis auratum ingentibus iinplet. Cf Petron. 97. They were also made of silk (Salmas. Exerc.
Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . , to be the same asrofi, ttXIkoituq toiq yvi( tovq fC£i^pv(])a\ovc, but the word hasnevertheless a wider signification. Such hair-nets are not visibleon vase-paintings, but they may be seen on the carefully exe-cuted frescoes of Hercuianeum and Pomjjeii. See Mus. 49 ; vi. 18; viii. 4 ; and fig. 1, infra. They seem to consistof gold threads, which agrees witli Juven. ii. 96 : Reticuluuique comis auratum ingentibus iinplet. Cf Petron. 97. They were also made of silk (Salmas. Solin. p. 392), and of the costly gold-yellow byssus of Eleia,(Pausan. vii. 21, 7), as well as of conmioner stuff. See Hesy-chius: rpi^aiTTOv to ßonpjVKiiov vfparTfia vrrep TÖJy rpi-^iör^ r>/CKEcpaXijg aTTTÖfitvor. Cf. Photius and Suidas. A difl^isrent ex-planation of the word is, however, given by Pollux, x. 32: kcuTpi\airTOV hi (paoi^ TrXf y/m f\- toi\u)v. The (TUKKOL or snoods, on the contrary, were often of thickerstuff, and sometimes covered the whole head, so that the hair2 1 3 4. Different kinds of K6»cpu(^aAüS Fig. 1 is a regular K^KpvcpaXos or hair-net, from a Pompeian fresco, Aphrodite and Eros ; Mus. Borb. viii. 5. Tiiegauze drapery also deserves attention. Figs. 2 and 3 are from a in Millin., Peint. d Vas. ii. 43. Fig. 4, a oÜkkos, from Tischbein,Evgrav. i. 14. SciLVE XI.] HAIR AND BEARD. 4G1 hung rlown on tlie neck like a pouch ; occasionally the fi ont partwas left bare; and sometimes it was open behind, so as to allowa tuft of hair to hang out. See figs, 3 and 4: also Stackelberg,Gräber der Hell. PL 68, 75, 76. From the peak of the snoodtassels sometimes depended. A head-dress of this kind is evidentlyintended by the KefaXi) TrspißeTot, in Aristoph. Thesmoph. 257 : ETP. KeKpv(pd\()v 5e? Kol /jLiTpas. AT. r]dl uev ovuKe(pa\7] TTfpidfTos, ^v e7cb vvKruip (popd. They were of divers materials—silk, byssus, and wool. See Pollvii. ()ß.
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