ALICULA. – A small leather cape, with or without a hood, used by hunters, farmers, laborers, and boys. In the Christian cemetery paintings and sculptures of Rome after the second half of the 3rd century, it is also worn by the Good Shepherd. In Diocletian’s price edict or maximum tariff of the year 301, the hooded one is called caracalla maior, whereas the one without a hood is called caracalla minor.
BIBL.: Wilpert, Pitture, p. 69–81, pls. LXX, 1, 3 and LXXI, 3; id. Die Malereien der Grabhammer des Trebus Justus in Supplementheft der Römischen Quartalschrift, 21 (1913), pp. 276–96 and pls. XVII and XIX. Enrico Josi