Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
perruque à étage
English translation:
tiered wig
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David Hayes
Oct 1, 2015 07:50
8 yrs ago
French term
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perruque à étage
French to English
Other
Textiles / Clothing / Fashion
"Les perruques à étage sur de la tôle d’or retrouvées à Naxos reprennent un modèle syrien."
This sentence (the sole reference to the term in my document) is from an academic paper about the archaeology of Old Smyrna in particular and the Aegean coast in general.
I am uncertain how to translate this term. I think it might be "tiered wig" or "long-tiered wig". But I am not sure. I have already asked the client (the French academic who wrote the paper), but he cannot help me with this.
Does anyone here know the answer?
This sentence (the sole reference to the term in my document) is from an academic paper about the archaeology of Old Smyrna in particular and the Aegean coast in general.
I am uncertain how to translate this term. I think it might be "tiered wig" or "long-tiered wig". But I am not sure. I have already asked the client (the French academic who wrote the paper), but he cannot help me with this.
Does anyone here know the answer?
Proposed translations
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Oct 1, 2015 08:02: philgoddard changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Other" , "Field (specific)" from "Archaeology" to "Textiles / Clothing / Fashion" , "Field (write-in)" from "Artefacts" to "(none)"
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tiered wig
Your supposition is correct. Here's another rather more modern version.
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Note added at 18 mins (2015-10-01 08:09:34 GMT)
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And here's an example of an ancient Egyptian one (the third picture from the bottom of the page):
Le personnage suivant, de plus petite taille est "son fils, le supérieur des écuries, Ousermontou ... " Il porte une perruque à étage, un pagne, mais pas de tunique....
http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/khonsou31/khonsou31_0...
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Note added at 18 mins (2015-10-01 08:09:34 GMT)
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And here's an example of an ancient Egyptian one (the third picture from the bottom of the page):
Le personnage suivant, de plus petite taille est "son fils, le supérieur des écuries, Ousermontou ... " Il porte une perruque à étage, un pagne, mais pas de tunique....
http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/khonsou31/khonsou31_0...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Volume 7, entry on Daedalic Art
Possibly of interest
Daedalic figures are strictly frontal. The top of the head is flattened, and the face has the shape, more or less, of an inverted triangle. The forehead is low with a straight hairline. The hair falls in front of the shoulders either in a mass with horizontal divisions (the Etagenperücke) or as thick, vertically divided locks.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC&pg=RA1-PA35...
Journal of Social Archaeology 4(2)
The modeled hairstyles too are eastern – a layered coiffure that German scholars called Etagenperücke.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UFPKOQq...
Daedalic figures are strictly frontal. The top of the head is flattened, and the face has the shape, more or less, of an inverted triangle. The forehead is low with a straight hairline. The hair falls in front of the shoulders either in a mass with horizontal divisions (the Etagenperücke) or as thick, vertically divided locks.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC&pg=RA1-PA35...
Journal of Social Archaeology 4(2)
The modeled hairstyles too are eastern – a layered coiffure that German scholars called Etagenperücke.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UFPKOQq...
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