leather cuirass

[Paullus Scipio]

No, it´s not off. You can go there and look at it, it´s green. I took the pic myself. Doesn´t change the argument, though...

One must be wary of interpreting colours made from pre-industrial age pigments. I have referred before on RAT to the fact that pigments frequently chnage over time - yellow often fading to cream or white for example.

In this instance, it is well known that many "blue" pigments fade to a bluish-green or even pure green over time. Uniform Buffs of the eighteenth century were puzzled for a long time that contemporary paintings of soldiers from French 'Royal' regiments, which were known to have had Blue facings, appeared in the paintings to have bright green facings, until it was realised that the pigment had changed colour over time......

I'd suggest that Ruben is correct, and this is what has happened in this case.....