Probably for the same reason there's so many paintings of the Passion that depict Roman soldiers in medieval - renaissance era regalia. Because your average artist living in Church-controlled post-Dark Ages Europe didn't have access to reliable information on what life 15 centuries before was really like.
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Date: 2010-03-24 06:46 am (UTC)