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Date: 1st–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Two fighting gladiators (Thraces); the left one has dropped his small rectangular shield, the right one is attacking, raising his shield to protect his face; each wears loincloth, crested helmet, and greaves. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Intact. Inward-sloping shoulder with three rills. Filling-hole lower right. Tiny unpierced air hole on top of voluted angular-tipped nozzle. Raised base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.

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