Tombstones

[mcbishop]

At first glance I thought you'd uncovered evidence of the infamous lorica roseata... which would really set cat amongst pigeons...

A rose red lorica, half as old as its grime...?

But (serious face) it looks like the blue bit is a definite fringe - hard to say whether it's part of a subarmalis-y thing, or an edging to the pink bit (which could be hock: some sort of fabric armour?)

Indeed, and the identification of whatever it is with the ephemeral subarmalis is no more certain than the cummberbund (as depicted on tombstones like Annaius') with the so-called fascia ventralis. Trouble is a lot of people don't like it if you hedge these things round with too many perhapses and maybes; doesn't stop me doing it, of course ;-)

Mike Bishop