Why is hair so important to your mistress? That sure seems like a lot of work each day. We have a number of standard boxwood combs around, but my mistress prefers her ivory comb the best. Regardless of the style of the day, and even if she’ll wear a wig, we begin each day by first washing her hair with olive oil and combing it meticulously. I suppose we’ll never know for sure, but I hear the hair was shaved from the head of a local woman before she was captured and sent to live the rest of her life as a slave after one of Rome’s many wars. She has one of fine golden hair from Germania that she particularly likes. My mistress also has a few wigs, which we use for the most special occasions. Some have gems, others have carvings of the gods, some are made of bronze, others ivory or gold. We pin it with an acus, and my mistress has many of these to choose from. She’ll ask that I dye her hair using henna, and curl it using the calamister, what you might now call a curling iron. When we have many male visitors, she’ll often wear a veil called a palla to show modesty and loyalty to her husband, but typically she opts for something more regal. I think she likes it because it was popular with the emperor Tiberius’s mother.
On the average day, she’ll wear her hair in a nodus, a style common among wealthy women back in Rome. When the family came to Caesarea from Rome, they brought me and many other house servants with them.Įach day, I style domina’s hair in accordance with the activities of her day-some days she’ll need something more extravagant and some days she is more simple, relatively speaking. I have been a house slave with this family since I was born, my mother having been a handmaid to domina and her mother before her. I am in service of the beautiful Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate, the new prefect of this province. We are here in Caesarea, capital of the Roman province of Judea. Salvē, Tryphosa! Fill us in on your work as a hairdresser here in Judea. Here we speak to Tryphosa, a hairdresser in Caesarea, capital of the province of Judea. Roving reporter Ryan and Oxford historian Lydia took Nat Geo’s trusty time machine back to the first century CE to get the word on the via about life in the Roman Empire.
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