Altar for the gladiator Eurotas - a photo on Flickriver

            Marble altar-stele with a representation of a gladiator (secutor?) in relief. The gladiator is standing on a base, advancing to the left. He wears body armor, leg guards, and a helmet with a crest; In his left hand he has a long shield, and in his right hand a short sword.
The gladiator is named by inscription Εὐρώτας. His name is inspired by the homonymous river near Sparta, which allodes to the military qualities of the Spartans
This kind of  two altar-stele belong to a large group of similar monuments found at Aphrodisias. According to some scholars, such stelae are not funerary monuments, but reliefs that were assembled around an inscription of a familia of gladiators commemorating its individual members. Since none of these monuments has been found in situ, but outside of the citywWall, where they were probably used as spolia. This stele was found built into the west City Wall, in which many funerary monuments have been used as spolia. A funerary context should not be excluded

Sorce: Chaniotis A., New Inscriptions from Aphrodisias

Marble altar steele
2nd – 3rd  century A.D.
Aphrodisias, Archaeological Museum
Aphrodisias, Caria, Turkey 

   

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Taken on: September 24, 2014

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