Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Band 81/2012, pp. 127-232, 2024/10/14
The Roman middle Danube provinces of Noricum, Pannonia Superior and Pannonia Inferior have yielded an extraordinary number of gravestones from the Roman period, often including relief portraits of the
deceased. The spectacular native dress worn especially by the local women has long been considered a
characteristic aspect of the region’s culture in the Roman period. Nonetheless, it has not been treated to a detailed analysis since J. Garbsch’s study of 1965, and has never been covered in a comprehensive manner.
This article provides a typology of all dress items – both men’s and women’s, Roman and native – that
appear on the middle Danubian gravestones. It seeks to outline how these garments and ensembles may
have evolved and what significance they may have held for the people who wore them.
