Tombstones

[mcbishop]

To further confuse things is the tombstone of the cavalryman Silius! (a very apt name considering) It shows his servant? wearing something similar to this but had some colour surviving on the tombstone.

The painted record being done by Ludwig Lindenschmit's father, I found out recently. Of course, that supposes the guy originally painting the tombstone knew what he was doing (not quite as obvious an assumption as one might think): layers of separation of interpretation from observation etc.

Otherwise I would have said that in Mike's key, green was the tunic, blue was the armour, possibly with subarmalis underneath and that red was the Robinson cover, perhaps in leather.

As I suspected. Interpretation is in the eye of the beholder ;-)

Mike Bishop