01-30-2012, 10:39 PM
Yes, I believe it has been determined that yellow can appear black, in black and white photos and not as one might expect a lighter shade of grey. So many an ace thought to be flying a sinister all black aircraft was in actual fact flying a bright banana yellow one!
Some of the colours on an original tombstone in Augsburg that Christian has mentioned previously appears to show flesh coloured legs with a very shiny yellow torso, which it is tempting to suggest is bronze armour but whether scale or mail is harder to determine.
The bands around the legs of a couple of early third century tombstones can be interpreted in a variety of ways without the aid of the original colour. Bracae, leg wrappings, undertunic or all three, anyone's guess really.
Graham.
Some of the colours on an original tombstone in Augsburg that Christian has mentioned previously appears to show flesh coloured legs with a very shiny yellow torso, which it is tempting to suggest is bronze armour but whether scale or mail is harder to determine.
The bands around the legs of a couple of early third century tombstones can be interpreted in a variety of ways without the aid of the original colour. Bracae, leg wrappings, undertunic or all three, anyone's guess really.
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.