<rs type="textType">Gladiator memorial</rs> for [?Margar]eites

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A white marble altar-stele, with moulding above and below (H. 0.88, W. 0.43, D. 0.38). The relief is of a heavily armed gladiator, with a short sword in right hand, a long shield in the left, and a crested helmet, advancing to the right.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper moulding, which is broken

Letters

lunate sigma and ?epsilon; 0.035.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D.(content, lettering)

Edition ΕΙΤΗΣ
Translation

[?Margar]eites.

Commentary

Robert conjectured [The]rsites, followed by Roueché; but both Kubitschek and Reichel read a lunate epsilon.

Locations

Walls, North: to the north of the north wall of the Stadium (1892) with 12.15, 12.13 Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Publications; notebooks.

History of Recording

Recorded by Reichel (R.I.21) with 12.15, 12.13 and by Kubitschek (K.III, endpaper); not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Mentioned by Kubitschek and Reichel, no.2, whence Robert, Gladiateurs, no 160; published from Reichel's notes by Robert, Hell. V, 93-5. Published by Roueché, PPA 27.

Photographs

Representations

Reichel notebook, I.21
Kubitschek notebook, III, 63