Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Tomb of the Leopards

Accession Number: 
102178
Order Title: 
History of Costume and Fashion (102059-103548)
Type of View: 
interior detail
View Title: 
detail of player on the double piper wearing a shaped, cloak-like garment draped over a shoulder and bordered in two colors
Image description: 
A semicircular cloak, a shortened form of the chlamys, is for young men. Usually bordered, it is fastened at the neck or shoulder. The Roman paludamentum is derived from this garment. The tebenna, also a semicircular cloak, is for ceremonies. It is always bordered, sometimes in two colors. The Roman toga praetexta is based on the tebenna.
Image Rights: 
copyrighted
Source Institution: 
NCSU Libraries
Collection: 
Design Library Image Collection
Culture: 
Etruscan
Subject: 
loincloths
Subject: 
paintings (visual works)
Subject: 
clothing
Subject: 
frescoes (paintings)
Subject: 
men (male humans)
Work Types: 
Built Environment; funerary structures; tombs
Preferred Title: 
Tomb of the Leopards
Agent Display: 
Unknown (Etruscan)
Date: 
ca. 480-70 BCE (creation)
Locations: 
Tarquinia , Lazio, Italy
Location Type: 
(current)
Style/Period: 
Ancient
Style/Period: 
Etruscan
Classification: 
Architecture