Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Suffibulum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SUFFI'BULUM. A large oblong square piece of white cloth placed over the head, and fastened by a brooch (fibula) under the chin; worn by the Vestals (Festus, s. v.), and priests (Varro, L. L. vi. 21.), at the sacrifice. The annexed figure (Suffibulum/1.1), representing the Emperor Trajan offering a sacrifice to Mars, from a bas-relief now inserted into the arch of Constantine, exhibits a piece of drapery so similar to the one described, that if it be not actually the suffibulum in question, it will at least afford a good proximate idea of the character it bore, and manner in which it was adjusted.

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  Suffibulum/1.1