Drawing of gladiator equipment

((:instrumentum gladiatorum, galea))

S++
sumit
AIVNTI CV

((:instrumentum gladiatorum, thorax))


Description of Drawing (English) Gladiator helmet, (text written in between), gladiator body armor
Findspot Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location col. IV, stria 17
Drawing Category Gladiators
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (4). Periit (3), sed contulerunt Sypniewski et Benefiel (AGP) et tantum vestigia in tectorio corroso adhuc videntur a. 2019.
Litteris minutis (2)
v. 1: SVV(M) (1); suu(m?) [munus] vel [instrumentum]? (2)
v. 3: ALVNT CV (??) (1), ALVNTI(us?) vel Acunti(us?) (2)
Imago descripta sic: Distribuite fra gli svolazzi del'elmo piumato e lo schematico busto di un gladiatore a sinistra sono le linee capillari di lezione abbastanza sicura (1), inter galeae cristam et thoracem gladiatoris stantis leviter [verba inscripta sunt] (2)
In eadem columna EDR128284 (stria 13), EDR128285 et EDR167615 (stria 16), EDR127849 (stria 17)
Bibliography Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 242, nr. 12 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08528 (2)
M. Langner, Antike Graffitizeichnungen: Motive, Gestaltung und Bedeutung. Wiesbaden 2001, n. 870 (Gladiator) (3)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127849 (4)
Link to EDR #EDR127849
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR127849, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127849> [accessed: 02 Apr 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Jacob Bowe, Holly Sypniewski

Contributors: H. Sypniewski, H. Busby, C. Hartline, B. Wright, M. Yorio

Last Revision: 2020-04-24

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