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Figure 33.5 Grave stele for Bozi, Ercsi, early second centuryAD. Szent István Király Múzeum,
Székesfehérvár, no. 58.5.1. Photograph U. Rothe.
found consisting of a large arc of fabric (Figure 33.5). It seems likely that this was a
characteristic garment of the Azali. Yet further west, we find what is almost certainly
the headdress of the Eravisci: a tighter, double-layered cloth bonnet (Figure 33.6). A
similar regional/tribal distribution can be observed for different types of overtunic (for
all of these, see Rothe 2012b). The use of female garments to express local identities is
not peculiar to the Danube region: we have already seen it with Ubian women’s dress
in Cologne and Menimane’s ensemble in the Treveran area. Unlike the Ubian ensem-
ble, however, the local dress styles were worn by the vast majority of women on the
gravestones of northern Pannonia; and unlike Menimane’s ensemble, they continued
to dominate female dress until well into the third century (Rothe 2012b). We have no
indication of a Pannonian counterpart to the Gallic ensemble. As in the epigraphy, the
emphasis continues to be on tribal membership. On the other hand, the northern Pan-
nonian gravestones are also remarkable for the fact that the men tend to wear either
Roman dress or generic garments that were common to Pannonia and Rome. As was the
case among the Treveri until the mid-first century, and the Ubii throughout the Roman
period, it was in the women’s dress that distinctions were made. Women appear to have
played a special role in these societies in visualizing their own tribal affiliations and those
of their families (see Rothe 2013).