ALICULA. - A small mantle of leather, with or without a hood, worn by hunters, farmers, laborers, and boys. In Christian funerary paintings and sculptures of Rome dating from after the second half of the 3rd century, it is also worn by the Good Shepherd. In the price edict (*calmiere* or *tariffa massimale*) of Diocletian, dated 301, the hooded version is called *caracalla maior*, while the one without a hood is called *caracalla minor*.
BIBL.: Wilpert, *Pitture*, pp. 69–81, tavv. LXX, 1, 3 and LXXI, 3; id., *Die Malereien der Grabkammer des Trebius Iustus* in *Supplementheft der Römischen Quartalschrift*, 21 (1913), pp. 276–66 and tavv. XVII and XIX.