A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 140
ed and the skirts girt up to the knee in Greekfashion (fig. 192 ; compare fig. 135). Yet the Roman tunic seemsalready to have departed from the Greek pattern in having sleeves,though only to the elbows. Sleeved tunics were not unknown to 128 GREEK AND KOMAN LIFE. the Greeks, whose slaves are often… … Fig. 138.—A Horseman wearing the Chlamys. two yards, as in the diagram (fig. 139). The simplest mode ofputting it on was to place one end on the left shoulder, with thestraight edge nearest the centre of the body and the point almost 6 yards
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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