Pallium (Roman cloak)

It was similar in form to the palla, which had been worn by respectable Roman women since the mid-Republican era.

[1] It was a rectangular length of cloth,[2] as was the himation in ancient Greece.

It could be white, purple red (purpurea from murex), black,[5] yellow, blue, pale green, etc.

The pallium was originally considered to be exclusively Greek and despised by Romans, but was favoured by ordinary people, philosophers, and pedagogues.

[6] It is not to be confused with the pallium used by Catholic clergy, which is related to the omophorion.