04-02-2007, 09:24 PM
If painted, particularly with encaustic paint, wouldn't that also help to protect from water? If statues were painted to enhance realistic lifelike appearance, it might be logical that armor designed to look like the human body might also be painted this way as well.
But who ever said logic got you anywhere in Rome?
But who ever said logic got you anywhere in Rome?
>|P. Dominus Antonius|<
Leg XX VV
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Oderint dum metuant - Cicero
Si vis pacem, para bellum - Vegetius
Leg XX VV
Tony Dah m
Oderint dum metuant - Cicero
Si vis pacem, para bellum - Vegetius