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Marcus Caelius - Jona Lendering - 06-11-2009
In the recently reopened museum of Xanten, there's currently a nice exhihition on the Marcus Caelius cenotaph. Here's one of the objects.
Re: Marcus Caelius - Quintius Clavus - 06-11-2009
Any idea of what the painter was trying to represent by painting the armor yellow? As a Primi Ordines Centurio (one of the centurions in the First Cohort), he certainly could have afforded getting his lorica hamata gilded.
Re: Marcus Caelius - Jona Lendering - 06-11-2009
Quote:Any idea of what the painter was trying to represent by painting the armor yellow?I have no idea, but gold may indeed have been the idea.