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Pontiarius\' pont - Gashford - 06-07-2012

Hello all

I am trying to find out more about the bridge/platform/pont shown in a couple of pictures like the graffiti below. I seem to recall there are a couple of other pictures of it but can't for the life of me find them online at the moment. Can anyone help me at all?

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My thanks for any extra help you might be able to offer.

Kindest regards

Graham


Re: Pontiarius\' pont - S. Marcer - 06-07-2012

Hello Gashford.
I know this gladiator representation on a vessel from Langenhain (Taunus), but I think (I have not seen the article personally) that you can find more images in the Bacchielli’s article about the iconographic definition of the pontarii gladiators:

L. BACCHIELLI “I pontarii: una definizione per via iconografica” (publication: 1990 In : L'Africa romana, 7, Atti del VII convegno di studi, Sassari 1989, pp. 769-772).


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(ref. Simon, 1975)

Best!
S.M.


Re: Pontiarius\' pont - Albertomv - 06-08-2012

Maybe you can find other images in Konstantin Nossov´s Gladiator: Rome's Bloody Spectacle. I remember the reconstruction of a pontiarius.


Re: Pontiarius\' pont - S. Marcer - 06-09-2012

Always on that subject, in the Trieste (Italy) Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte, in the section dedicated to the world of gladiators, there is a relief from Turkey with Greek inscription that remembers the liberation from the games of the retiarius [— —]α̣κριτος.

Best!
S.M.

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