Capital
Capital a kerchief of woollen (Varr. L. L. 5.130) or linen cloth (P. Diac. p. 57 M.), worn round the head by Roman women in early times, and, after it had gone out of general use, retained as part of the costume of certain priestesses (Varr. l.c.). Among these may have been the Vestals; a coin engraved by Saglio shows a kerchiefed female head and the letters V. V., i.e. Virgo Vestalis; but not the Flaminica (Rich), whose coiffure was undoubtedly the TUTULUS.
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.