A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 80
diators ; oneis simply ornamented with specimens of gladiatorial armour (helmets,greaves, shields, and daggers). No complete example of a gladiators helmet is shown in theCase, but the bronze visor (No. 170), a small bronze model (No. 171),and a model in glazed pottery (No. 172) suffice to give an… … Fig. 59.—Gladiators Helmet. which shows combats and corn-waggons (see Case 50) the panem etcircenses demanded by the Roman populace. Some interest attaches to the series of ivory tickets (tesserae),which are inscribed with the names of gladiators, and are valuableas being dated by the names of the…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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