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Relief of a Murmillo Gladiator at The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Title
Tombstone relief of a Murmillo Gladiator with Greek Verses


Artist
Unknown, Roman work


Date
2nd century A.D.


Medium
Marble


Dimensions
x


Accession #
P-5004 (A. 458)


Credit
Provenance: 1869, from the 1829/30 excavations near Demotika



The murmillo was a type of gladiator during the Roman Imperial age. The murmillo-class gladiator was adopted in the early Imperial period to replace the earlier Gallus, named after the warriors of Gaul. As the Gauls inhabiting Italy had become well-integrated with the Romans by the time of the reign of Augustus, it became undesirable to portray them as enemy outsiders; the Gallus-class gladiator thus had to be retired.
 
This tombstone relief depicts a Murmillo Gladiator, which can be identified by the distinctive helmets decorated with an image of a fish. There are Greek verses engraved around the subject, perhaps to commemorate the death of a gladiator.
 

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