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Women from early Christian frescos – jewelry on paintings

Barrel-vaulted tomb with scenes of funerary customs of the Flavios Eustorgios family, mid 4th century. From the Christian necropolis at Thessaloniki. Woman wears a tunica dalmatica.
Museum record >> https://www.mbp.gr/en/object/wall-painting-scene-family-worship


Fresco from the Coemeterium Maius, in the cubicle della Madonna orante, Roman catacombs. Mid 4th century.
color photo source
The Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology, catacombs photo archive >> Coemeterium Maius, Cubicolo della Madonna orante.

The copy of this fresco there is in the Museum of Roman Catacombs in Valkenburg, Netherlands. Vintage pictures from Valkenburg


Catacombs of Jordanians (la catacomba dei Giordani), via Salaria Nova, Rome, the deepest catacombs of Rome. Orant fresco, mid 4th century. (prof. Barbara Filarska, Początki sztuki Chrześcijańskiej, pp. 75-77)
Photo http://cmentarium.sowa.website.pl/Cmentarze/CmRzymskie3.html
Getty images (descriptions are incorrect!) 1. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/praying-figure-male-figre-fresco-catacombs-of-jordanians-news-photo/157408731 2. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/praying-fresco-detail-from-the-catacombs-of-jordanians-rome-news-photo/157408110

The Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology, catacombs photo archive >> http://www.archeologiasacra.net/pcas-web/catacombe?page=5#n


Orant in the “cubicle of five saints” in the catacomb of St. Callista, Rome, early 4th century. I believe she wears a necklace, string of beads.
Photo from Wiki https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_praying.jpg


Fresco of Theotecnus’s family, with his wife Ilaritas and little daughter Nonnosa, a tomb in the Catacombs of San Gennaro at Naples, Italy; beginning of the 6th century. All three figures are shown wearing the richly decorated tunica strictoria.
Source https://www.catacombedinapoli.it/en/places/catacombs-of-san-gennaro-naples
Photo from Wiki >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catacombe_Di_San_Gennaro_Fresco.jpg


For garments’ description see:

Fashioning Identity in the Late Roman and Late Antique World: The Case of North Africa (c. AD 200-500); Amy E. Place

University of Leicester, 2020