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Let's wait for the oficial report. I hope those reliefs aren't fake and were buried for aging.
There are some things that make that relief suspicious:
1: The degree of the detail.
2: The frontality of some figures.
3: Some details shows the man who made it knows well other reliefs, but don't understand the function. The weapons, the helmets and the cornicem seems too close to military art. One gladiator haves the hand protected with the protections often used in pugilatum (boxing).
Another time, i hope there are real, and the things i have pointed could be explain.
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A quick glance through 'Gladiators' by Michael Grant 1967 reveals a number of reliefs showing similar equipment and frontal poses executed with the same degree or even greater detail.
It is not unique to see a cornu portrayed either, as one exists in a Pompeii wall painting. Junkelmann also noted the similarity between a lot of military equipment and Gladiatorial. Other common aspects in Gladiator art include the draped tunic and groin guard, rectangular shields and same fighting stance adopted by the legionaries who we are told were also trained to fight against wooden stakes as the Gladiators did.
Graham.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
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Quote:Other common aspects in Gladiator art include the draped tunic and groin guard,
Thank you very much, Graham! It's something I've noticed as well, including the curved pleats on the 1st C. tunics that resemble a gladiator's garment as you say.
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Probably i'm too sceptical!
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I've seen on TV news the other panels, there are some fantastic and elaborated shoes too!
I'll try to go soon to the etruscan museum of Villa Giulia, where the panels will be for one month, to take pics, if allowed...
Valete,
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desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
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