Gladiatorial marble reliefs recovered

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

Viewing the epigraphy picture showed by Dan, you can see a lot of little spots on the surface of the marble. That's maked by a tool what in Spain is called gradina:



Romans not use that tool, because oftenly the surface of his marbles, and specially the Luni-Carrara, was left very very smooth.

Normally in archaeology is not often to find some kind of representations, and that conjunt have a lot of them:

What about the finger signal?
What about the hand guards depicted only in pugilatum?
What about the eyebrows (gallic helmet style) in the helmets?
What about a cord subjecting the pommel of the sword to the gladiator's hand?

And, finally, the great question. WHY THE LOOTERS BURIED THE RELIEFS?

The only explanation it's for aging.