This is a terracotta oil lamp featuring a murmillo gladiator. We can identify the gladiator with his distinctive helmet with a fish-scale like protrusion on the top.

This partially preserved blue glass cup features a relief of fighting gladiators. An inscription above the figurative scene names the gladiator. The cup was made between the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.

These are two examples of graffitti left on the wall of a house. They date to the second half of the 2nd century CE. We cannot say for sure but they are either secutors or murmillos. However, we know that their helmets covered their faces to protect…

The Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls of Lugdunum was built in 19 CE and financed by C. Julius Rufus, a citizen of the city of Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes, France), priest of Rome and Augustus, as evidenced by a dedicatory inscription. It was part of…