11-13-2006, 01:51 PM
Byron wrote:
Well I did not come across any grey cloaks in my research but of course that does not mean they did not exist. The nearest I found was a blue grey cloak shown on a wall painting at Castellum Dimidi now in Algeria. Grey or brown trousers seem to be common on pictures of late Roman soldiers. If it were me I would stick with the yellow brown colour for a cloak.
Black clothes did exist too. One soldier shown on the Luxor wall paintings is wearing a black tunic with his yellow brown cloak. While Crassus was recorded as wearing a black Paludamentun cloak before Carrhae which of course with hindsight was later seen as a bad omen and he had to change it for a purple one.
Graham.
Quote:Well I'm glad we've decided gray is acceptable? Now I expect to be shot down soon so here goes............
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Well I did not come across any grey cloaks in my research but of course that does not mean they did not exist. The nearest I found was a blue grey cloak shown on a wall painting at Castellum Dimidi now in Algeria. Grey or brown trousers seem to be common on pictures of late Roman soldiers. If it were me I would stick with the yellow brown colour for a cloak.
Black clothes did exist too. One soldier shown on the Luxor wall paintings is wearing a black tunic with his yellow brown cloak. While Crassus was recorded as wearing a black Paludamentun cloak before Carrhae which of course with hindsight was later seen as a bad omen and he had to change it for a purple one.
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.