difference in 3rd,4th and 5thc AD tunics

[Robert Vermaat]

Indeed! What are you singing there?

[Crispvs]

The Woad song.

Crispvs

[Restitvtvs]

Nice article on Egyptian printed cloth article (related to many RAT members' Late Roman Tunic works):

http://www.historyofscience.com/G2I/tim ... hp?id=1641

Egyptian article:

http://touregypt.net/featurestories/fabrics.htm

Hope these help.

[Graham Sumner]

Hi Paul

Only just spotted your post and like you could not resist a reply!

This is a bit OT in this otherwise interesting thread but I could not resist.

"Glad you think them cool, yes I have noticed a number of first century white tunics with red fascia ventralis waistbands since they appeared..."

I don't have a white tunic and red fascia ventralis, but I DO have an white (ish) tunic and a BLUE fascia ventralis.

Well you would! :wink:

It might be that Fuentes was correct and things like the scarf and or a waistband could be coloured as a means of identifying a unit rather than a tunic colour. So I guess blue would be in keeping with your groups 'marine' impression :wink: :wink:

This combination seems nice and tidy but could also be completly wide of the mark! Fun to speculate but we will never know for sure.

For the new book published by the History Press due out this summer, I found more tunic and cloak colour references but in spite of what Len Morgan wrote on your groups website, that the time period covered was too great, it is remarkable how consistent the evidence is. New finds from Egypt are practically adding to it daily and I have tried to include as much as I can with sections on hats, gloves, scarfs, waistbands, the subarmalis and tunics and cloaks both early and late. Off course it would not be complete without further discusion on the tunic colour debate. Is it solved, well I think so but I am sure others will disagree.

Graham.