Relief of a Gladiator
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Relief of a Gladiator
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Published 2017-03-17T15:34:08+00:00
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Marble relief of a Murmillo gladiator so-named because its broad brimmed and high crested helmet resembled a variet of saltwater fish.
The murmillo (also sometimes spelled mirmillo or myrmillo, pl. murmillones) 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.
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| Date published | 17/03/2017 |
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| Title | Relief of a Gladiator |
| Date | 2nd century AD |
| Accession | MMoCA576 |
| Period | Imperial Rome-Severan Dynasty |
| Medium | Marble |
| Place | Mougins Museum of Classical Art |
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