Drawing of a gladiator helmet

((:caput gladiatoris galeatum))


Description of Drawing (English) Head of gladiator wearing helmet
Findspot Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Precise Location col. XCVIII, stria 6
Drawing Category Gladiators
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus et mensura secundum (2). Contulerunt Sypniewski et Benefiel (AGP) a. 2019 et non invenerunt. Tectorio nunc abraso, periit (5).
Titulus descriptus sic: due testine galeate di prospetto (1), gladiatoris caput galeatum prospiciens (2), frontaler Kopf mit (Helm ?) sed kaum zu erkennen(3)
Apographa capitis apud (3) et (4) inter se magnopere differunt.
Prope EDR167704 (stria 7)
In eadem columna EDR167722
Bibliography Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 291 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08749 (nota) (2)
M. Langner, Antike Graffitizeichnungen: Motive, Gestaltung, und Bedeutung, Wiesbaden 2001, nr. 380 (Gladiatorenkopf), con apographo (3)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL Vol. IV collecti sunt imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, p. 524, con apografo (4)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR167703 (5)
Link to EDR #EDR167703
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR167703, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR167703> [accessed: 02 Apr 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Holly Sypniewski

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

Last Revision: 2019-07-20

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