Just out of curiousity....

[Caballo]

"Divers make surprising discovery
18 Oct 2005


AN image of a Roman gladiator wearing only a G-string has been dug from the bed of the River Tees.

Broken Roman pottery, decorated with the picture, was recovered from the river at Piercebridge.
Archaeologists believe the figure of a gladiator, who also appears to be holding a whip, may be the first of its kind ever discovered.

Philippa Walton, who works for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, said: "The pottery sherd depicts a man wearing a G-string and holding a whip. The sherd is a fragment from a larger vessel, probably a beaker.

"Similar pottery has been found before depicting some gladiatorial scenes, some quite pornographic, but I can't think of an example where the gladiator only wears a G-string.

Divers Rolfe Hutchinson and Bob Middlemass came across the figure.

Over the past 20 years the pair have uncovered thousands of ancient artefacts from the river while diving."

[Tarbicus]

a Roman gladiator wearing only a G-string

Which only gives more credence to my leopard skin undies.....

RAAARRGHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Robert Vermaat]

AN image of a Roman gladiator wearing only a G-string has been dug from the bed of the River Tees.

I bet it was a local fashion.. Club thing, no doubt!

[A_Volpe]

Why can't that be the long lost female Gladiatrix going Dominatrix in a G String and a Whip? 8) :twisted: :roll: :wink:

....Gladiatrix versus Retiarius....Whips and...Chains?

[Arthes]

Greetings,
I read one comment about this...
they immediately thought of Titus Pullo.....hehe
are they sure it's a man....that looks like rear 'cheeks' to me... :roll:
regards
Arthes

[Anonymous]

Could be a cheeky boy! But I don't think it's a G-string at all, it's pants, represented by moulding the outline only.

I wear a special loincloth; I don't think it's fair on the public for us to be commando. I have one unbleached linen and two silk ones, one green, one blue, suitable for gladiating. V E R Y nice.

I remember that hen party....