04-30-2009, 12:07 AM
Quote:Is it right that the Herculaneum soldier is now known to have been wearing a red tunic when Vesuvius blew?
See the post above your last message Jim!
He had traces of orange red wool on his body, does that make a tunic?
Maybe it is jumping to conclusions a bit like the 'Roman soldier's' red 'tunic' from Masada you sometimes read about. That is in fact an isolated piece of wool about the size of a credit card. However in the case of the Herculaneum find, it was on a body and the body does appear to be that of a soldier - marine.
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.
