06-11-2009, 07:40 AM
In the recently reopened museum of Xanten, there's currently a nice exhihition on the Marcus Caelius cenotaph. Here's one of the objects.
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Marcus Caelius
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06-11-2009, 11:30 AM
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.
Quinton Johansen
Marcus Quintius Clavus, Optio Secundae Pili Prioris Legionis III Cyrenaicae 
06-11-2009, 02:20 PM
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. |
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