Gladiatorial fight. Detail.


Mosaic from the Villa Borghese.
Ca. 300 A.D.
Rome, Museum and Gallery of Villa Borghese.
Credits: © Photo, text: M.E. Sergeenko. Prostie lyudi drevnei Italii. — Izdatel’stvo “Nauka”. Moskva—Leningrad, 1964.
From: Encyclopedia dell’arte antica. Roma, 1960, s. v. Gladiator, dig. 1183.
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