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Salvete omnes,

Has anyone got any pics or info on the colour robes worn by priests and priestesses around 1st/ 2nd century A.D.? There's lots of statues but these don't indicate the colour of the clothing.
'Modern' portrayals usually see them wearing white- but I've seen statues of Isis wearing dark/ grey black robes- was this adopted by followers of Isis? Also were there light or dark robes dependant on the offerings being given to the Heavens or the Underworld?
Also, were there female Haruspices? If so, does anyone know what they would have worn?

Thank you in advance

Jo

Augurs wore a striped robe, but how it was striped or in what colors is unknown.

Quote:Augurs wore a striped robe ...

Source? :?

Maurus Servius (don't have the work here) stated that augurs wore the toga trabea and that it was striped and purple-hemmed. Dionysus of Halicarnassus mentions it as well.

I found this, like John said:

Quote:All these Salii are a kind of dancers and singers of hymns in praise of the gods of war. 2 Their festival falls about the time of the Panathenaea,102 in the month which they call March, and is celebrated at the public expense for many days, during which they proceed through the city with their dances to the Forum and to the Capitol and to many other places both private and public. They wear embroidered tunics girt about with wide girdles of bronze, and over these are fastened, with brooches, robes striped with scarlet and bordered with purple, which they call trabeae; this garment is peculiar to the Romans and a mark of the greatest honour.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 2.70.1-2

Sorry for the delay - thank you everyone

Jo