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ECL-Bn.5:39-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.5:39-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Two Gladiators

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Numbers Bn 5. 35-40 are numbered together on the front below the image: I - VI as a sequence
Ashby: 'Bn 5. 37-40 this group of drawings probably refers to a single pavement, which was discovered on the right of the Via Appia near Domine quo vadis in January 1720, according to Montfaucon(MS. Paris 1293, f. 158; cf. Bianchini, Cod. Veron. 348. ff. 71, 79, who gives the inscription of T. Flavius Posidonius seperately, as though it had been on a marble slab, C.I.L. vi. 18169, whereas it really belonged to a pavement)'

Other number

Ashby ETON II No.39 (v)

Description

Content (description)

Two gladiators; one to left with hooked weapon stands erect, while the other, on the ground, tries to hook him by the right leg. On the right is the fragmentary inscription: SEVERUS . L. V.
No tesselation.

Content (object)

mosaic

Content (note)

Ashby describes this as a 'pavement', therefore a mosaic.

Dimensions

height (actual size): 417mm
width (actual size): 272mm

Dimension note

Ashby gives the dimensions as 170 x 155
The actual drawing on the page measures 156mm x 166mm

Inscription

Bartoli Palazzo di Tito written in ink on the back of the drawing
V written in ink on the front, below the drawing


Materials & techniques note

watercolour on paper

Production

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Ashby (p. 23-24 See Ashby for extensive notes)
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