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I just found this and I think it's pretty interesting. A very vibrant depiction of a gladiator from Begram in Afghanistan dating to the 1st C. AD. I believe this is an example of Syrian glasswork that had been imported.
![[Image: mgbegram15.jpg]](http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/mg/mgbegram15.jpg)
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Nice! there is a nice piece at Vindolanda, Fragmentary, but they found another piece this year. It too depicts gladiator scenes..
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Wow! Must have been a pretty piece when new.
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Quote:MeinPanzer:1ncstkt0 Wrote:A very vibrant depiction of a gladiator from Begram in Afghanistan dating to the 1st C. AD.
Nice!
That's Begram or Bagram, as in the airbase?
Begram and Bagram are just different spellings for the same city. At any rate, rather than mentioning modern names, I should have just said that it was found in the ruins of what are thought to have been Alexandria in the Caucasus.
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Quote:MeinPanzer:39z4wkx7 Wrote:Begram and Bagram are just different spellings for the same city. At any rate, rather than mentioning modern names, I should have just said that it was found in the ruins of what are thought to have been Alexandria in the Caucasus.
Caucasus and Afghanistan? 
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The Greek name for the Hindu Kush range was the Caucasus, so it was called "Alexandria on the Caucasus."
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He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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