Late Roman gladiators

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Graham,
Thanks, that's a good way to start off.

Protection from the manica is often shown starting to come round the front of the chest, under arm and back.

Is that possibly what the guy bottom right is wearing? There's something he wears over his tunic which covers just his breast.

The growth in armour and the funeral inscriptions are frequently used to help build on the idea that the later games where a lot more bloody than the earlier affairs.

What are these later funeral inscriptions actually saying?