Elaborately armed, two gladiators named Memnon and Valentinus faced each other in brutal combat almost 2,000 years ago
“When you now look at this vase, you know that you’re seeing real people on it. They fought here, in Colchester,” which was known to the Romans as Camulodunum, Glynn Davis, a senior curator at Colchester Museums, said in a telephone interview Monday. The vase is believed to date to the late second century.Try refreshing your browser, orBecause of the sophistication of the frieze, archaeologists previously assumed that the pot had been imported from elsewhere in the Roman Empire.
A separate analysis of the Latin lettering inscribed across the pot’s surface found that Memnon and Valentinus’s story was spelled out before the pot entered the kiln and not scratched onto the surface later. Memnon had a heavy advantage in the fight, according to the vase’s depiction. He carried a sword and a large shield and had a helmet that completely encased his head except for eyeholes, considerably better than his rival’s weaponry and armor. The inscription says this was his ninth victory as a gladiator.
“Inscriptions and increasingly analysis of human skeletal remains show us the presence of individuals of Middle Eastern and African geographical origin in Roman period Britain, especially in the province’s cities,” Pearce added.
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