Babylonicum
Babylonicum (usually in plural), a Babylonian coverlet, placed upon couches (Lucr. 4.1029; Fest. p. 298, Müller) and horses (Dig. 34, tit. 2, s. 25.3), sometimes used as a garment (amictus aureo Babylonico, Publ. Syr. ap. Petron. 55), though Ulpian (Dig. l.c.) denies that it should be classed as a dress (non puto vestis esse), was much prized by the Romans for its brilliant colour (Lucr. l.c.) and embroidery (Mart. 8.28, 17).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.