Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 231
sewed up. A bronze statuette illustrates this way of putting iton. A young girl is about to join together on her left shoulderthe chiton, which is fastened over the right shoulder by meansof an agraffe. It appears clearly that the whole chiton consistsof one piece. Together with the open and… … THE CHITON. 221 son putting it on stood as in a cylinder. As in the chiton of thesecond form, the overhanging part of the cloth was turned out-ward, and the folded rim pulled up as far as the shoulders, acrosswhich (first on the right, and after it on the left side) the frontand back parts were…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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