The Relations of Illyrian Albania with the Greeks and the Romans

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ID20070695
AuthorsNicholas Hammond (University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year1992
Pages29-39
Publication date1992-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePerspectives on Albania (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-22050-2_3
OpenAlexW1561682108
ISBN9781349220502
LanguageEN
Citations received5

In 1931 I photographed some nomadic Vlach shepherds at Chaliki near the source of the river Achelous. Two leaders — called Tschelni-kadzi — held each between his knees a fine ram, his greatest possession, on which the increase of the flock depended. They wore homespun clothing and a heavy cloak (kappa) of mixed goathair and sheep-wool. As a contrast to them I cite a gravestone relief of c. AD 200, which shows two smiths working what is probably iron on an anvil. They are Illyrians of the Korçë area. They wear typical Illyrian dress: a long one-piece homespun shirt, worn without a belt, which was perhaps the prototype of the dalmatic of Roman officials and of Christian priests, and a conical leather or knitted cap with a tassel hanging from the top, like a Victorian nightcap

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