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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3187514, member: 19463&quot;]We really do not know what these each looked like. We have some with traces of some pigment residue and know that there was color but we really don&#039;t know what that color was.&nbsp; We could paint statues wit a best guess but we would not be correct.&nbsp; Statues with no trace of color could be painted the way some student thought it should have been to fit his idea of truth but it would still be assumption.&nbsp; I prefer leaving the originals as we have them and displaying beside them a best guess replica.&nbsp; At least that way we won&#039;t have to strip the paint later when we get more evidence that the purple used was .01 more red than the shade we used last year.&nbsp; Do we restore things to the way they were when first made or after the third restoration when Septimius Severus repainted what Trajan restored that Caligula built?&nbsp; This stuff is hard![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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