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FIFTH CENTURY – MOSAIC FROM LATERAN BAPTISTRY, ROME.
Ecclesiastical costumes adopted lay garments such as the Dalmatic, decorated with clubs (on the right), and the Chasuble, a long sleeveless vestment gathered up on the arms ( on the left).
Lay and clergy where nonetheless separated by some peculiar details.
The two saints are showing heavily tonsured heads; the one on the left is wearing a pallium on his chasuble: a long white woollen strip decorated with two crosses which reminds the roman pallium – a cloack that replaced the toga in it traditional uses) for the way it wraps around the neck.
