Drawing of a gladiator
((:gladiator ad dext.))
| Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator facing right |
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| Findspot: |
Smyrna, Basilica
(Agora.1)
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| Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
| Writing Style: | charcoal |
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| Bibliography: | Bagnall, R. S. et al., Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna (2016): 377. Coleman, K. M. 1996. “A Left-Handed Gladiator at Pompeii.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114: 194–6. |
| Commentary: | Dipinto of a human figure, possibly a gladiator, located on the western face of Pier A74. The figure is badly damaged and mostly faded. Still visible are the left leg, the left arm, and part of the clothing of a male figure in profile, turned toward the right. The left arm seems to be extended forward and raised, possibly holding a short sword. These details are not sufficient to establish to which category this gladiator belonged. A discussion of representations of left-handed gladiators in funerary stelae and pictorial graffiti as well as textual graffiti appears in Coleman 1996. |
| Suggested Citation: | AGP-SMYDP0743, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-SMYDP0743> [accessed: 24 Apr 2024] |
| Contributions: |
Editor: Roger S. Bagnall Principal Contributor: Roger S. Bagnall Last Revision: 2016-10-03 |
