MEDAILLE ANTIQUE COMMEMORATIVE " AU GLADIATEUR" en alliage plombifère. Ave

ANTIQUE COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL "TO THE GLADIATOR" in lead alloy. Obverse with presumed profile of a victorious gladiator wearing a high bun, head laurel facing left. Reverse of a scene of a standing gladiator subduing another captive gladiator, kneeling on a terte of laurels, reverse captioned: " ** STUS - ** SARS" (?).
Roman Empire, 1st century A.D.
Diameter: 9.6 cm - Weight: 263 g.
(Corosion, small chips)

PROVENANCE :

- Presumed acquired between 1969 and 1999This circular bronze ornament would have been
and nailed to an urn.
The name inscribed on this object corresponds
of Caius Iulius Quadratus Bassus, a Roman senator
senator of the 1st and 2nd centuries, general and consul
suffect in 105 under the reign of Trajan, for whom he
one of his principal military advisors.
The other name, that of Michael Demetrios
Exizoglos, could be that of the consul's
consul's local representative.
It is important to emphasize the rarity of this
artefact, which could be unique and an important
important witness to citizenship in Athens
in the early Roman period. in London by the late Mr. S. M.
- collection of the late Mr. S.M., transmitted by descent.