Pontiarius\' pont

[Gashford]

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?



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

Kindest regards

Graham

[S. Marcer]

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.

[Albertomv]

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

[S. Marcer]

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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