military and political authority.
軍事和政治權威。
OK, I won’t point out any further details about the colors on the Augustus statue,
好了,關于Augustus雕塑上的顏色我就不再贅述了,
because you can already begin to see that there was cultural importance associated with the colors, symbolism which should help us understand the statues better.
因為你們現在已經可以開始看到,這些顏色和文化意義是有所關聯的,這些是能夠幫助我們更好懂得雕塑的象征。
There are many, many more sculptures that have traces of pigments left on them and we have the technology these days to be able to carry out effective studies of these pigments.
還有很多很多雕塑上也有著殘余的顏料痕跡,而且如今我們有了能夠對這些顏料進行有效研究的技術。
There is a lot of work to be done, but it needs to be done fast.
還有很多工作有待完成,但需要盡快完成。
Like I said before, these pigments deteriorate rapidly so we really need to do the research before the traces are gone
就像我之前說過的,這些顏料會快速脫落,所以我們真的需要在這些痕跡消失之前進行研究,
so that we can increase our understanding of ancient polychrome sculptures and the cultures which created them.
以便于我們增加對古代多色雕塑,以及創作出它們的文化的理解。