Civilian pictures

[Woadwarrior]

are these civilian pics accurate, i mean did ancient romans look EXACTLY like those renactors exactly exactly

and can some one post a few links with good civilian pics?

oh and off topic but how do u gain immunes?

http://www.esg.ndirect.co.uk/cov/index.htm

[Robert Vermaat]

are these civilian pics accurate, i mean did ancient romans look EXACTLY like those renactors exactly exactly
and can some one post a few links with good civilian pics?
oh and off topic but how do u gain immunes?
http://www.esg.ndirect.co.uk/cov/index.htm

How would we know what ancient Romans looked like EXACTLY? None of us were there, so this will remain an unanswerable question. We can get a pretty good idea, but that will always be based on artistic representations (statues, frescoes, mosaics) or descriptions from authors.

Immunes can't be gained, it's not a points thing. If you mean laudes, these are gained by good and interesting posts.

[Viventius]

In answer to Woadwarrior:

There are some pix of Comitatus' civilians here:

http://www.comitatus.net/event_bolsover05.htm

We're Late Roman, so look a little different from the 1st-2nd century Ermine Street Guard civvies. There's a useful book: Roman Clothing and Fashion by Alex Croom, which has plenty of pictures of Roman civilian clothing, including those from different provinces.

If you literally want to see what a Roman looked like, here's a reconstuction of the face of a Roman Woman from London, using her skull, found in a 4th century burial:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/597762.stm


And Vortigern said:

How would we know what ancient Romans looked like EXACTLY? None of us were there, so this will remain an unanswerable question. We can get a pretty good idea, but that will always be based on artistic representations (statues, frescoes, mosaics) or descriptions from authors.

Archaeological finds have also been known to help on this front too, if memory serves :wink:

He also unwisely pointed out:

laudes, these are gained by good and interesting posts.

:twisted:

[Robert Vermaat]

And Vortigern said:

How would we know what ancient Romans looked like EXACTLY? None of us were there, so this will remain an unanswerable question. We can get a pretty good idea, but that will always be based on artistic representations (statues, frescoes, mosaics) or descriptions from authors.

Archaeological finds have also been known to help on this front too, if memory serves :wink:

Of course you're right about that, but I wasn't thinking of jewellry or fibulae, but of faces and hair and stuff like that.. 8)

[Viventius]

Vortigern said:

Of course you're right about that, but I wasn't thinking of jewellry or fibulae, but of faces and hair and stuff like that..

And archaeology can help with that too - re: the other link in my previous post to the reconstruction of the woman's face, and there are finds of hair in burials, eg. at York:

http://www.york24.org/yorkshire-museum/ ... 2/hair.jpg

[FAVENTIANVS]

From Al-Fayum Egypt,

http://www.portret.com.ua/history_of_portrait1_eng.html
http://www.artfilm.org/Art/pic-fayu.htm
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?dsi ... ey=Gallery of Fayum mummy portraits&linktext=Gallery of Fayum mummy portraits

[Quintus Julius Furius]

Some picture of civilian gallo-romans.....

http://www.traditionet.fr/auxilia.nsf/P ... 790056F26E

[Quintus Julius Furius]

http://www.traditionet.fr/auxilia.nsf/P ... 4000717CF9

[Robert Vermaat]

Sébastien, thanks for the images!