04-09-2010, 11:43 AM
The idea of the split horsehair sounds reasonable, but this might be easily shot down but would an obvious way of distinction not be different colour horse hairs for centurions? i have no evidence to back that up, but was thinking from a centurions soldiers spotting and identifying their officers a few ranks back point of view.
was thiniking for example regular soldiers horse hair would possibly be black (uncoloured) and an officers would be coloured, Red, blue or purples i guess? as we know colour did play a significant part in roman society, purples for example being colours of people of great importance (and wealth!) but i'm not sure if this would have been the case pre-imperial? (still expensive tho!).
Just my two cents
was thiniking for example regular soldiers horse hair would possibly be black (uncoloured) and an officers would be coloured, Red, blue or purples i guess? as we know colour did play a significant part in roman society, purples for example being colours of people of great importance (and wealth!) but i'm not sure if this would have been the case pre-imperial? (still expensive tho!).
Just my two cents
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