This garment marking continues to puzzle me. I spent a lot of time trying to make sense of it. Making sense of draped garments means, by analysis, taking them apart. I remember half a lifetime ago a book review in the American Journal of Archaeology that pointed out that, if you do so with a neo-classical or neo-archaic
sculpture, or sometimes with a
provincial version of a deity
type, you end up with very odd shapes of 'cloth' of wildly assorted lengths, betraying a carver who did not know the garments and was in some cases unfamiliar with making garments from basic lengths and widths of yardage (so that Socrates'
himation very naturally doubles as
his blanket).
I can't make sense, even assuming blanket stitching or fringe.
My four-image composite shows a lifetime Alexander's
Zeus; a copy in Dresden of
Zeus or Hades and a copy in Copenhagen of the famous
Nemesis by Agorakritos, a younger disciple of Phidias, and the
Nike from an
Alexander stater (I
hope CA won't mind the pedagogical use of details of two of their images, since there are some coins not in my
budget!). The two male deities wear just an
himation in the draping that makes a half-draped god. The
Nemesis is similar, but a lady deity wears a linen
chiton under her
himation draped just the same way as on the half-nude
Zeus or Hades. The
Nike wears a woolen
peplos with the overfold, which, as E. Harrison pointed out in a Festschrift article dedicated to
Homer Thompson, allowed using the same yardage, by adjusting the overfold, for a half-grown girl or a full grown woman. Now the three figures with wrapped
himation all show, if I read
Curtis accurately, the parallel horizontal lines (less
schematic in the big
statues).
Now, I think that these Homonias and the Demeter that opens the
thread wear the
peplos. A shoulder mantle (women don't drape it as a
chlamys) is worn by the
Homonoia. So I
had to
face the challenge of drawing with a mouse using the brush tool in different colors (I meant to make her proper right shoulder, which looks like a sort of sleeve, white rather than gray, because it is REALLY puzzling). So, I made what I see as mantle pale blue-gray, I made the ridges on the
cornucopia ochre, I made the continuous lower edge (which seems to unite the garment) turquoise blue, and I made the puzzling 'dentation'
red.
These colored markings should make clear why, at the end, I thought I might be seeing just folk-art decoration of an edge.
But I couldn't make it out as the parallel folds wrapped around a
leg, as on the
Zeus of the
Amphipolis tetradrachm, or those on the Dresden and Copenhagen
statues, both very careful replicas, as accurate as such things are.
Now it's someone else's turn to draw with a mouse.
Pat 
