Gladiatorial marble reliefs recovered

[john m roberts]

I can't say about the sculptural tool, but such early gladiatorial reliefs as have survived often show a manica that looks like the pugilist's caestus. the eyebrows are problematical. They look like elongated volutes and I've seen that, too, on early gladiatorial reliefs. If this is a forgery, it is one of the biggest ever perpetrated. These aren't small relief fragments here. They're huge!