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Very nice images Paul! A nice link, too!
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There is a rectangular scutum clearly visible in the second picture...¿¿??
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It is there in the middle of the battle scene, surrounded by the circular shields...a very curious image.
I thought that there was no gladiatorial games in the Fifth century...
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I am not sure about the exact date, but i think that gladiatorial fights were abolished in the IV C by Constantine, after the adoption of the Christianism as the offcial religion of the Empire.
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In XXXIV, it looks like "cartoon dialog" bubbles over the heads of the people represented. I can't read what it says, but I guess it could be some descriptor or just conversation. How interesting that the convention was that old. Never thought about when that started.
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The figures are paired and repeated, they are the same two characters...it is like a ancient comic, yeah...
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Quote:Gaius:3ptpdwkw Wrote:It is there in the middle of the battle scene, surrounded by the circular shields...a very curious image.
I thougth that there was no gladiatorial games in the Fifth century...
Very curious indeed. the bared shoulder would indicate a gladiator rather than a legionary.. The groups in an odd lot anyway, ranging from hellenistic to late Roman..
It looks more like the 'exomis' tunica to me. By the fifth century, the bare shoulder look and the rectangular scutum both would have become traditional imagery, so their inclusion into art isn't that surprising. If you look at some of the other gear, there also seem to be a fair share of hoplite aspides around.
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Exactly. They even have shield bosses.
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Quote:Exactly. They even have shield bosses.
Not all of them look like they do. At least to me.
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Ther extreme righthand figure in the upper battle scene also has a rectangular scutum. Both figures with the scutum are portrayed in a conventionalized gladiator "on guard" stance. Perhaps they were copied from old lamps or monuments? Even after the abolition of the munera the old monuments must have been everywhere, since so many have survived to this day.
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Quote:Not all of them look like they do. At least to me.
Which one doesn´t?
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