leather cuirass

[caiusbeerquitius]

Or that the Museum reconstructions themselves are actually based on any evidence for surviving colours. We often assume that because they are in Museums then they must have been but I know for certain in at least one case, that the museum staff simply made the colours up! This then became 'evidence' for Roman tunic colours!

Too true. From what one of our faculty staff said, this one was made after long-light picture and analysis. However, it might make sense to ask in Bonn.

John Peter Wild has also stated that red can be used to outline figures on tombstones. Christian if there is "ample evidence" for colour as a contrast do you have other examples? Naturally I am very interested.

Sure
- T. Flavius Surillio / Byzantion, in consequence from Speidel:
- G. Mendel, Catalogue des sculptures 3, Istanbul 1914, #891, #892
plus:
- Igel Column
- Loads of Jupitergigantensäulen
etc.

Here from the Igeler Säule, very well showing the highly conventionalized use of colour:

Not too far fetched actually. The seventeenth century buff coats were dyed yellow.

Hm. 1700 years seem quite far-fetched for my taste, regarding the massive changes in equipment etc, only between 9 and 90 or 9 and 250 or 1871 an 1971.