AGAPE SIGMA-COUCH

AGAPE SIGMA-COUCH

AKA: stibadium, triclinium, refrigerium

(See-through clothing; wine)

Are those some kind of see-through garments? And, it looks like pubic hairs on the person on the left:

The Roman Banquet: Images of conviviality, Dunbabin, 2003, Plate XIII (4 pages prior to p. 61):

“Constanza” refers to “Costanza” the daughter of Constantine: See prior webpages about early Christianity’s Santa Costanza (the “Temple of Bacchus”).

The following looks like the same kind of garment:

The Roman Banquet: Images of conviviality, Dunbabin, 2003, p. 179, figure 104, “Rome, (Christian) catacomb of Peter and Marcellinus, arcosolium 75 | end of third to early fourth century AD”

Enlargement (you can clearly see his arm and her legs):

Bringing that wine over, it looks like it’s going to turn into an erotic party to me. At least they have me convinced.

Die Katakombe „Santi Marcellino e Pietro“: Repertorium der Malereien (The Catacomb “Saints Marcellino and Peter”: Repertory of the Paintings), Deckers, 1987, Vol. 2, farbtafel (color plate page) 55, “a) Nr.(number) 75”:

Material looks see-though under both arms, and top parts of boots show well through material above the bottom rim of dress.

http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/dbcourses/klein/large/BISCO~32.jpg (via http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/item?skip=1180), Arcosolium with banquet scene; Catacomb of SS. Pietro e Marcellino, Rome:

Enlarged with contrast adjusted:

You see, Christian see-though attire stresses erotic sex more than would just fundamental nudity:

Updating…

http://www2.victoriassecret.com/commerce/application/prodDisplay/?namespace=productDisplay&origin=onlineProductDisplay.jsp&event=display&prnbr=SH-188873&cgname=OSKEYSLPZZZ&rfnbr=2411 (Victoria’s Secret), Andres Sarda: Sheer dot robe:

Oh my.

http://www2.victoriassecret.com/commerce/application/prodDisplay/?namespace=productDisplay&origin=onlineProductDisplay.jsp&event=display&prnbr=SH-188878&cgname=OSKEYBRPZZZ&rfnbr=2411 (Victoria’s Secret), Andres Sarda: Sheer mesh cut-out bodysuit:

http://www.ldiva.com/Store/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=Babydoll&Product_Code=20080&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ldiva, Beautiful Strecth Lace and Sheer Net Baby Doll:

BEAUTIFUL STRECTH LACE AND SHEER NET BABY DOLL

She’s waiting for you, big guy!

http://asian-quest.tripod.com/fashions/, Fashions ~ Trendsetters / Trend Setters, “Sheer – See Throughs”

http://poshgirlvintage.com/vintage_lingerie/Sheer1920Slip/sheer1920Gown.html, 1920'S Sheer Tap Pant Gown:

Well, I think you get the picture (even though I could better reveal the true stimulation values if this was an X-rated site).

http://members.aol.com/cyberlyric/gretchen.html, Gretchen Wilson Lyrics, “Redneck Woman”:

Victoria's Secret, well their stuff's real nice
Oh, but I can buy the same damn thing
On a Wal-Mart shelf half-price
And still look sexy, just as sexy
As those models on TV
No, I don't need no designer tag
To make my man want me
You might think I'm trashy
A little too hard core
But in my neck of the woods
I'm just the girl next door [or, an early Christian]

Sabina (see above catacomb text):

I wonder if “SABINA” could be referring to:

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/000Survivors/source/62.html, Greek Mythology Link: Survivors of the Ancient World, Album, “1550-60: Sabina Poppaea. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève | Sabina Poppaea, d. AD 65”:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/ancientwomen/p/PoppaeaSabina.htm, Ancient / Classical History: Poppaea Sabina:

Poppaea Sabina - Claim to Fame:
Poppaea Sabina was the mistress of one Roman emperor, Nero, at the same time she was the wife of Marcus Salvius Otho -- later to become one of the emperors in the year of the four. Otho was sent off to be governor of Lusitania in A.D. 58. It was as a result of Nero's relations with Poppaea Sabina, who was 7 years his senior, that Nero and his mother Agrippina had a falling out. Nero divorced his childless first wife and married the pregnant Poppaea in A.D. 62.

Reported Manner of Poppaea's Death:
Poppaea gave birth to a daughter to Nero, in A.D. 63, Claudia Augusta, who died at four months. [Poppaea Sabina was also awarded the title "Augusta".] Poppaea Sabina became pregnant again, but according to Suetonius, Nero kicked her in the abdomen causing her death. At her death in A.D. 65, Poppaea was given divine honors.

She was popular.

http://ctlibrary.com/3533, Christian History: The Early Controversies Over Female Leadership:

“The Celestial Banquet ” of this late-3rd-century fresco is led by a woman. Note the reactions of the other participants (!). The writing indicates this is an agape feast. (Catacomb of SS Pietro e Marcellino, lunette of an acrosolium.)

Actual “AGAPE” Text:

Looks like same outfits (woman on left, leg visible; two people on far right, arms visible; possibly more but carved away):

Early Christian Painting, Pierre du Bourguet, 1965, figure 100:

“List of Plates | Catacomb of St Peter and St Marcellinus”:

Above Latin text (left) reads: “IRENE DA CALDA”:

IRENE = goddess of peace / Pax

DA (form of “do”) = give / yield / offer

CALDA = drink of wine in hot water

Above Latin text (right) reads: “AGAPE MISCE MI”:

AGAPE = love

MISCE = to join one's self to, have carnal intercourse with / mix / mingle / unite / stir up / blend

MI = (plural of ) my / mine / I / me / myself (plural of meus), therefore “us”:

Collins Latin-English English-Latin Dictionary, Kidd, 1957, p. 204, “meus” & “mi”:

“mi” = vocative & masculine plural of meus. “meus” = my, mine; therefore “us”.

http://www.ultralingua.net/index.html?action=define&sub=1&nv=0&searchtype=stemmed&text=ego&service=latin2english, Ultralingua web: The Language Site, “Definitions & translations | ego(above) | Latin --> English”:

Outfits look pretty see-through here too:

Early Christian Art: AD 200-395: From the Rise of Christianity to the Death of Theodosius, André Grabar, 1968, p. , “2. Christian Painting and Sculpture before the Peace of the Church (before AD 313) | 111. Rome, Catacomb of SS. Pietro e Marcellino (Saints Peter and Marcellinus), Hall of the Tricliniarch. Celestial Banquet”:

Enlargement of text on left:

Above Latin text reads: “AGAPE MISCE NOBIS”:

AGAPE = love

MISCE = to join one’s self to, have carnal intercourse with / mix / mingle / unite / stir up / blend

NOBIS = by us / to us / we / ourselves

(Breakdowns below:)

MISCE:

http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookit.pl?latin=MISCE (Univ. of Notre Dame), Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid, “MISCE”:

misce

misceo miscui mixtum : to mix, mingle, blend.

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?MISCE, “MISCE”:

misc.e               V      2 1 PRES ACTIVE  IMP 2 S

misceo, miscere, miscui, mixtus  V   [XXXAX]

mix, mingle; embroil; confound; stir up;

A Smaller Latin-English Dictionary, Smith, 1879, p. 355, “miscĕo”:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%238902, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, “coetus”:

coetus , us, v. 2. coitus.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lookup=coetus&lang=la&corpus=Roman&author=&formentry=1, coetus:

coitus#2

sexual union

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%238980, cŏĭtus:

cŏĭtus , and another orthography coetus (only distinguished in signif. by use; … a coming or meeting together, an assembling … an assemblage, crowd, company … A uniting, joining together, combination … Sexual intercourse, coition

http://www.answers.com/coitus, coitus [English]:

Sexual union between a male and a female involving insertion of the penis into the vagina.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?layout.reflang=la;layout.reflookup=misceo;doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2329243, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, “miscĕo”:

to mix, mingle, to intermingle, blend … To join one's self to, have carnal intercourse with

Harpers’ Latin Dictionary, Lewis / Short, 1879, pp. 1149-1150, “miscĕo”:

Sounds like an orgy to me.

NOBIS:

http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookit.pl?latin=NOBIS (Univ. of Notre Dame), Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid, “NOBIS”:

nobis

nobis : (abl.) us / there'll be no one as happy as US.
nobis : (dat.) us / the world belongs to US.

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?NOBIS, “NOBIS”:

n.obis               PRON   5 3 DAT P C

n.obis               PRON   5 3 ABL P C

 [XXXAX]

we (pl.), us;

IRENE:

The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: College Edition, 1968, p. 976, “pax”:

P. 739, “kiss of peace”:

It was originally a kiss on the mouths.

The text to the right in the same catacomb photo above:

(not best copy)

Above text reads: “IRENE PORGE CALDA”:

IRENE = goddess of peace / Pax

PORGE = it offers / make clean (porgere)

CALDA = drink of wine in hot water

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Calida.html, Calida: (William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875):

CAʹLIDA, or CALDA, the warm drink of the Greeks and Romans, which consisted of warm water mixed with wine, with the addition probably of spices. This was a very favourite kind of drink with the ancients, and could always be procured at certain shops or taverns, called thermopolia (Plaut. Cur. ii.3.13, Trin. iv.3.6, Rud. ii.6.45), which Claudius commanded to be closed at one period of his reign (Dion Cass. lx.6).

Translation from German:

By writings: In brown color on white base: left: AGAPE·MISCE·NOBIS; right: IRENE·PORGE·CALDA.

Vol. 2, RC Lau (catalog painting) 45, “2”:

The Roman Banquet: Images of conviviality, Dunbabin, 2003, p. 245, “Notes”:

Another scene:

Die Katakombe „Santi Marcellino e Pietro“: Repertorium der Malereien (The Catacomb “Saints Marcellino and Peter”: Repertory of the Paintings), Deckers, 1987, Vol. 2, tafel (plate page) 33, “c) Nr.(number) 47”:

Vol. 2, farbtafel (color plate page) 22, “a) Nr.(number) 47”:

Vol. 2, RC Lau (catalog painting) 47:

Vol. 1, p. 273, “47”:

In text:

Beischriften: Links oben in Braun auf weißem Grund: AGAPE P(OR)GE CALDA. Rechts oben in Braun auf weißem Grund: IREN(E) MISCE. …

Translated from German:

By writings: Left above in brown on white base: AGAPE P(OR)GE CALDA. On the top right in brown on white base: IREN(E) MISCE. …

Because all these word arrangements vary in combination with one another, it appears that the Early Christians where saying that agape love, wine (Bacchanalian orgies), and their mixing of carnal sex are all synonymous for the purpose of bringing peace to the world.

Here’s another scene:

http://www.art-sacre.net/rome/f_168_2.html, La paix des Chrétiens devant la mort (The peace of the Christians in front of death [French]), “Repas céleste, crypte de Gaudentius, arcosolium (Celestial meal, crypt of Gaudentius, arcosolium)”:

Catacombe de Pierre-et-Marcellin [ Rome, Italie ] (Catacomb of Peter-and-Marcellinius [ Rome, Italy ], 280-320 AD)

Vol. 1, p. 280, “50”:

In text (“D’s” were rendered backwards):

Beischriften: In brauner Farbe auf weißem Grund: links AGAPE DA CALDA; rechts IRENE MISCE. …

Translated from German:

By writings: In brown color on white base: on the left AGAPE DA CALDA; on the right IRENE MISCE. …

By the way:

Image as Artifact: A Social-Historical Analysis of Female Figures with Cups in the Banquet Scenes from the Catacomb of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, Rome; Ph.D Dissertation by Janet H. Tulloch, Dept. of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada; Jan. 16, 2001; microfiche via ILL; p. 66; “Figures: 4a-4c (same as immediate above) | Archaeological Context”:

Pagan accusation of Christian sex orgies:

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0410.htm (Catholic Encyclopedia), Fathers of the Church: Octavius (Minucius Felix):

Chapter 9. Argument: The Religion of the Christians is Foolish … in Shameless Darkness They are All Mixed Up in an Uncertain Medley.

…

They know one another by secret marks and insignia, and they love one another almost before they know one another. Everywhere also there is mingled among them a certain religion of lust, and they call one another promiscuously brothers and sisters, that even a not unusual debauchery may by the intervention of that sacred name become incestuous

I’m aware that you’re all saying how much that agape sigma-couch resembles:

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/newhouseimages/summertriclinium.jpg (via http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/30222housesimages.htm), Introduction to Ancient Rome, “Three couples in a summer triclinium Pompeii. Fourth Style painting, 70 AD”:

The “sigma couch” was also called a “triclinium”:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1991/02.07.07.html, W.J. Slater (ed.), Dining in a Classical Context:

In the High Empire triclinium mosaics take two forms: U-shaped, with a central rectangular panel surrounded on three sides by a rectilinear area for couches, and T+U-shaped, which adds a horizontal bar to the central panel marking the entrance. (Numerous examples from Antioch and North Africa are discussed in some detail.) In late antiquity the triclinium is generally replaced by the stibadium, a semi-circular sigma-couch, again often identifiable by the mosaics. Although the earliest sigma-couches show up only in late 2nd century, literary references are found as early as the 1st.

The Oxford English Dictionary, 1989, “feast”:

http://www.furniturestyles.net/ancient/homes/roman-triclinium.html, Roman Triclinium or Dining Room:

http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Pictures/Furniture/Roman%20Triclinium%20in%20a%20typical%20dining%20room%20-%20a%20th2%20la.htm, Christian Computer Art: Bible Picture Gallery, “Dining”:

Roman Triclinium in a typical dining room - a three sided couch, covered in cushions when in use. Each side for three reclining eaters, leaning on their left elbow:

Looks like a good place to have sex.

Updating…

http://www.paxaugusta.net/1Animations/triclinium.jpg (via http://www.paxaugusta.net/1Animations/1animations.htm), Les animations de PAX AUGUSTA:

It looks like something sexual could happen pretty easily.

http://www.vendeitude.org/photoarchi/antiquite/triclinium.jpg (via http://www.vendeitude.org/architecture.htm), “Un triclinium”:

Yep, it looks like the kind of place where one could eat and sleep.

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/vienne/en/img/maison3.gif (via http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/vienne/en/maison3.htm), Virtual Visit: The houses of Vienne – Interior layout, “Position of beds in a triclinium”:

The Last Supper, Luke 22:14 (also John 13:12) to “recline” / “lie down” instead of “sit down”:

Interlinear Greek-English New Testament: With Strong’s Concordance Numbers above Each Word, Green, Baker, 1996, p. 266, Luke 22:14:

(The far right text column is the KJV):

http://www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/kjvstrongs/STRGRK3.htm, Strong’s Greek Dictionary (301-400):

377

anapiptw
anapipto
an-ap-ip'-to

from ana - ana 303 and piptw - pipto 4098; to fall back, i.e. lie down, lean back:--lean, sit down (to meat).

Basically the same in Matt. 26:20; Mark 14:18; John 13:23 & 28 (Strong # 345):

http://www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/kjvstrongs/STRGRK3.htm, Strong’s Greek Dictionary (301-400):

345

anakeimai
anakeimai
an-ak-i'-mahee

from ana - ana 303 and keimai - keimai 2749; to recline (as a corpse or at a meal):--guest, lean, lie, sit (down, at meat), at the table.

Strong likes to show the original meanings and the translation meanings.

Other examples (of 345) are Matt. 9:10; Matt. 26:7; Mark 5:40; Mark 16:14; Luke 7:37; John 6:11.

The Last Supper bed, Mark 14:15 (also Luke 22:12):

http://www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/kjvstrongs/B41C014.htm#V15, The KJV Bible, Mark 14:15:

kai autoV umin deixei anwgeon mega estrwmenon etoimon ekei etoimasate hmin

14:15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished [and] prepared: there make ready for us.

http://www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/kjvstrongs/STRGRK47.htm, Strong’s Greek Dictionary (4701-4800):

4766

strwnnumi
stronnumi
strone'-noo-mee,

stronnuo strone-noo'-o, prolongation from a still simpler stroo stro'-o, (used only as an alternate in certain tenses) (probably akin to stereoV - stereos 4731 through the idea of positing); to "strew," i.e. spread (as a carpet or couch):--make bed, furnish, spread, strew.

Same word used:

http://www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/kjvstrongs/B44C009.htm#V34, The KJV Bible, Acts 9:34:

kai eipen autw o petroV ainea iatai se ihsouV o cristoV anasthqi kai strwson seautw kai euqewV anesth

9:34 And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.

In Roman Latin, what lying together relates to:

Concub… / concumb… :

Collins Latin Gem Dictionary, Kidd, 1957, p. (Latin-English), “concu´bit/us”:

Cassell’s Latin Dictionary, Simpson, 1968, p. 128 (Latin-English), “concŭbĭtus”:

Harpers’ Latin Dictionary, Lewis / Short, 1879, p. 404, “concŭbĭtus”:

… “con-cumbo”:

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?concubitus (Latin-English translator), “concubitus”:

concubit.us VPAR 2 1 NOM S M PERF PASSIVE PPL

concubeo, concubere, concubui, concubitus V (2nd) DAT [EXXDW] Later lesser

lie with (sexual and not); have sexual intercourse with;

concubit.us N 4 1 NOM S M

concubit.us N 4 1 VOC S M

concubit.us N 4 1 GEN S M

concubit.us N 4 1 NOM P M

concubit.us N 4 1 VOC P M

concubit.us N 4 1 ACC P M

concubitus, concubitus N (4th) M [XXXCO]

lying together (sleeping/dining/sex); sexual intercourse, coitus; sexual act;

http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem=concubitus&ending= (University of Notre Dame), Latin Word Lookup, “concubitus”:

concubitus -us m. [lying or reclining together]; hence [copulation].

http://www.online-dictionary.biz/latin/english/vocabulary/reference/concubitus.asp, Latin To English Dictionary, “concubitus”:

concubitus copulation

The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Traupman, 1966, pp. 53-54 (Latin-English), “concub... | concumbō”:

Langenscheidt’s Universal Latin Dictionary, Costa / Herberg, no date, p. 55 (Latin-English), “concub... | concumbō”:

Langenscheidt’s Pocket Latin Dictionary, Handford / Herberg, 1966, p. 79 (Latin-English), “concub... | concumbō”:

accumbo (another form):

A Smaller Latin-English Dictionary, William Smith, 1879, p. 113, “concub... | concumbō”:

Examples of accumbo (forms thereof) that were words used in the Latin Vulgate:

Mark 2:15:

Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him.

Mark 6:39:

Then He commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.

Luke 7:49:

And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

Luke 13:29:

They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

Apparently “...cumbo…” is a form of the words, including: accumbo, concumbo, decumbo, discumbo, incumbo, occumbo, procumbo, recumbo, succumbo, etc. Also, stratum / sterno describe the same thing.

discumbo (another example):

A Smaller Latin-English Dictionary, William Smith, 1879, p. 172, “dis-cumbo”:

The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Traupman, 1966, p. 87 (Latin-English), “dis·cumbō”:

http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem=discumbo&ending= (University of Notre Dame), Latin Word Lookup, “discumbo”:

discumbo -cumbere -cubui -cubitum (1) [to recline at table]. (2) [to go to bed].

Examples of discumbo (or forms thereof):

Matthew 15:35

So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

Matthew 26:20 (the Last Supper):

When evening had come, He sat down with the twelve.

Notice above how they changed lay / laid to sit / sat?

Genesis 39:7 (KJV):

And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

You betcha they had see-through clothing back then:

And it was perceived as very sexual:

http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/indepth/795a/, Clothes and the New Testament:

Much of what she has said of the twenty-first century could also be said of the first century. Aspects of the world of women’s fashion were also seen by contemporaries to have ‘gone too far’.

See-through clothing had traditionally been the dress of many hetairai, the high-class prostitutes who entertained single and married men as dinner companions and later, in what was politely said to be ‘after dinners’, in that unholy trinity of eating, drinking and sexual intercourse.

Some married women were starting to wear similar provocative clothing and others were feeling the pressure to conform to this new trend.

“Never have you fancied the kind of dress that exposed no greater nakedness by being removed,” wrote Seneca, a contemporary of Paul, with his usual elegant turn of phrase to his mother in the 40s AD.

The modest married woman did not wear clothes that were transparent. Her dress consisted of many metres of material falling in folds from the shoulder. A mantle was wrapped around her dress. The top part of the mantle was draped on the top of her head for the first time on her wedding day. This was the marriage veil she subsequently always wore in public as a sign to others of her marital status.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_embassies_to_China, Sino-Roman relations, “Chinese silk in the Roman Empire”:

Trade with the Roman Empire followed soon, confirmed by the Roman craze for Chinese silk (supplied through the Parthians) from the 1st century BC, even though the Romans thought silk was obtained from trees:

The Seres (Chinese), are famous for the woolen substance obtained from their forests; after a soaking in water they comb off the white down of the leaves... So manifold is the labour employed, and so distant is the region of the globe drawn upon, to enable the Roman maiden to flaunt transparent clothing in public—(Pliny the Elder (23–79, The Natural History).

The Senate issued, in vain, several edicts to prohibit the wearing of silk, on economic and moral grounds: the importation of Chinese silk caused a huge outflow of gold, and silk clothes were considered to be decadent and immoral:

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes... Wretched flocks of maids labour so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body—(Seneca the Younger (c. 3 BC–65 AD, Declamations Vol. I).:

Menade in silk dress, Naples National Museum. (Maenad, from the House of the Ship, Pompeii, 1st Century BC-79 AD)

A Chronology of Western Architecture, Yarwood, 1987, p. 25, “Fourth- and Fifth-Century Early Christian Churches”:

Constantine was the first Christian emperor, and was father of Costanza (Constanza) [see top of this webpage].

http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page648.html (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna), Greek and Roman Antiquities, “Aphrodite and Eros Hellenistic, 3rd-2nd centuries BC”:

The body figures are visible through the transparent, seemingly wet clothing that sticks to the body, in contrast to the vertical cloth stripes of the cloak that descend strongly on the left side. On the left shoulder the small Eros is sitting with crossed legs.

http://www.villaivlilla.com/patterns.htm, Roman Women's Costume, “Fabrics”:

Most of the fabric worn by inhabitants in the classical world was of wool, with some linen imported from Egypt and, later in the Empire, silks or "serica" imported from far-off China. "Wild silk" garments, woven on the Greek Island of Cos were also mentioned. These were extremely light, transparent fabrics.

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/clothwomen.html, Rome Exposed: Clothing of Women and Girls, “Fabrics”:

From very early times, linen goods were made in Italy, but they were not of the best quality. The finest linen came from Egypt and was soft and almost transparent.