Gladiatorial marble reliefs recovered

[Conal]

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


I will have to defer on this but this is a basic mistake for someone who has sourced large amounts of marble :?

"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?"

I don't have a full set of the pictures but if this isi refering to the index finger appeal for mercy then this is attested to elsewhere, the Zliten mosiac IIRC. Aslo http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... f%26sa%3DG

"What about the hand guards depicted only in pugilatum?"

Again these are attested to also and have been recreated in Das Spiel Mit Dem Todd by M Junkelmann. See link below also.

"What about the eyebrows (gallic helmet style) in the helmets?"

I dont see why this should be questioned? See link below.


"What about a cord subjecting the pommel of the sword to the gladiator's hand?"

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... f%26sa%3DN

Tab down to the picture near number 2.

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

The only explanation it's for aging."

To hide them ?

If this is a fake then I congratulate the perps as they have done a good job, well researched.