05-04-2007, 11:16 AM
Like I said, we don't have enough information to know for reasons set out above that I need not repeat.
There are no "rock hard, solid , scientific reconstructions", merely bare indicators of colour, and no hard evidence ( so far) of how it was applied.
At least concede that views such as mine or Titus Sabatinus are at least equally likely ?
In any event, we are drifting off topic - my vote is COLOURED, but with strong reservations as to both the limited palates illustrated and the fact that scientific evidence that a'red' paint was used tells us nothing about which shade of red, or even how many shades of red, and certainly not the style of painting ( which doubtless differed from early to late Roman times, just as painting did)
regards, Paullus Scipio/paul McDonnell-Staff
There are no "rock hard, solid , scientific reconstructions", merely bare indicators of colour, and no hard evidence ( so far) of how it was applied.
At least concede that views such as mine or Titus Sabatinus are at least equally likely ?
In any event, we are drifting off topic - my vote is COLOURED, but with strong reservations as to both the limited palates illustrated and the fact that scientific evidence that a'red' paint was used tells us nothing about which shade of red, or even how many shades of red, and certainly not the style of painting ( which doubtless differed from early to late Roman times, just as painting did)
regards, Paullus Scipio/paul McDonnell-Staff
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
