07-31-2008, 05:27 PM
Hi Matt
There are a few references like this floating around but you need original sources for them to be of any use. There were a few mentions I heard of by re-enactors about Caesar's soldiers obtaining a batch of yellow tunics during the Alexandrian war but no one could tell me the source and I could not find any either.
Another I have not been able to track down is a mosaic which has appeared in a few popular books in the UK. Each image shows the same, a soldier wearing a crested helmet. Presumably there is more to the mosaic than just a head but the helpful picture captions and acknowledgments say the mosaic is in Spain, great!!! Our Spanish RATers had never seen it at all.
Graham.
Quote:Just a point...but didn't Scipio Africanus also wear a black cloak at one point during the campaigns in Spain I think?
There are a few references like this floating around but you need original sources for them to be of any use. There were a few mentions I heard of by re-enactors about Caesar's soldiers obtaining a batch of yellow tunics during the Alexandrian war but no one could tell me the source and I could not find any either.
Another I have not been able to track down is a mosaic which has appeared in a few popular books in the UK. Each image shows the same, a soldier wearing a crested helmet. Presumably there is more to the mosaic than just a head but the helpful picture captions and acknowledgments say the mosaic is in Spain, great!!! Our Spanish RATers had never seen it at all.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
