Leather Cuirass Lorica Musculata, I used to think no way but

[Tarbicus]

Thing is, the colour representations we have of soldiers in armour tends to show them in iron or bronze. Look at the Santa Maria Maggiore mosaics and others.
http://www.cvrlab.org/humnet/resources/Mosaics.html
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/a ... giore.html
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=15397
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... 039#113039
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... 278#107278

I don't dispute the white armour you've done here! The statue shows that, so at least makes the chances 50/50. But common soldier's armour is a leap of faith IMHO. Maybe symbols and decoration, as there was a long tradition before and after. A lot of medieval armour apparently lost its paint after Victorian curators polished them up to make them look right for display :roll: But there is a fair bit of reference in Roman source texts to soldiers burnishing their armour.

An interesting mosaic, just for the record:
http://www.classicalmosaics.com/images/warrior.jpg