ECL-Bn.5:40-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.5:40-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Gladiator to the right with shield and spear
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)'
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.40 (vi)
Description
Content (description)
Gladiator to right with shield and spear. Fragmentary inscription above him: MARTI (?) ,surface fractured along right edge.
No tesselation.
No tesselation.
Content (object)
mosaic
Content (note)
Ashby describes this as a 'pavement', therefore a mosaic.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 420mm
width (actual size): 280mm
width (actual size): 280mm
Dimension note
Ashby gives the dimensions as 170 x 125
The actual drawing on the page measures 173mm x 126mm
The actual drawing on the page measures 173mm x 126mm
Inscription
Bartoli Palazzo di Tito written in ink on the back of the drawing
VI written in ink on the front, below the drawing
VI written in ink on the front, below the drawing
Materials & techniques note
watercolour on paper
Production
Person
Bartoli, Francesco, 1675? - 1730? (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Ashby (p. 23-4 See Ashby for extensive notes)