07-11-2014, 12:28 AM
Looking at the complexity of some designs on Late Roman tunics and cloaks there is little chance that they could be accurately reproduced in the medium of mosaic.
If you look at the basic pattern of a diamond within a circle that is probably the nearest you would get.
There is of course a swastika on a tunic elsewhere in the PA mosaics and another appears on a cloak in a fresco in Rome.
There are indeed quite large textile remains with swastikas within circles too but that is getting into dangerous territory for re-enactment! :whistle:
Graham.
If you look at the basic pattern of a diamond within a circle that is probably the nearest you would get.
There is of course a swastika on a tunic elsewhere in the PA mosaics and another appears on a cloak in a fresco in Rome.
There are indeed quite large textile remains with swastikas within circles too but that is getting into dangerous territory for re-enactment! :whistle:
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.
