Thank you Konrad for posting the link and starting a terrific exchange of knowledge, idea's and opinions.
I think that guy presenting his video-story is using a lot of words and very very poor image material to give us very little information.
After reading all of your replies to this movie again, there are some thing I like to say:
Thank you so much sberry and Chariobaude for your most interesting information.
sberry wrote:the evidence on Roman military clothing is fragmentary and difficult to interpret, but it still exists. The answer from the RGM in Cologne is not really helpful – to it me it seems they just didn’t want to be bothered.
That is exactly what I thought: no interest in being bothered.
Question to our German members: is there suddenly a huge Roman museum in front of the side entrance of the Koln Dom church? Last time I was there, there was'nt. There was just the Stadtliches Historisches Museum opposite the Northern remnants of the Roman city walls.
sberry wrote:their blunt statement that we don’t know anything anyway is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Well said, sberry, well said
Konrad and FredG, there is something that I feel very uncomfortable with when reading this:
Konrad wrote:FredG wrote:
Sorry but all a mosaic proves is that someone laid it. The rest is guess work.
That is also my opinion.
Why feeling uncomfortable with it? Because I don't want to read such non-constructive opinions.
The fact is there are hundreds of Romans in my storage waiting to be painted.
I do not expect to receive hard true facts from you, like in a court of justice.
All I like to know is:
THE MOST PROBABLE COLORS
The most probable.
Not the truth based on secured facts.
Just the most probable with the information we can gather
Most probable for what archeological science is giving us at date 2017
Ironically, I do not believe in strict uniformity concerning the Roman legions, not in early republican days, not in the high days of the first Emperors and not in the decline and final centuries of the empire. If there was strict uniformity in color, it would have been captured by the numerous sources.
I believe in a mixture of colors, quality and style for every man in unit, no matter if it was Auxilia or Legionaries. With, of course, some colors dominating a unit more than another.
And exactly that strict uniformity in color is what Konrad (but also Uderzo and Goscinny) DID use and show us when he painted his beautiful and most impressive Roman legion.
Konrad: why that uniformity in color, why every man looking the same, if nothing is sure?