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 R.S. Bagnall R. Casagrande-Kim A. Ersoy C. Tanriver B. Yolaçan Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna First published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the New York University Press, 2016. New York 2016 EDR SMYDP0743 AGP AGP-SMYDP0743 Charcoal Dimensions: 30 25 ((:gladiator ad dext.)) gladiator facing right Smyrna 0180-0300 C.E. Basilica of the Agora of Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey

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Dipinto of a human figure, possibly a gladiator, located on the western face of Pier A74. The figure is badly damaged and mostly faded. Still visible are the left leg, the left arm, and part of the clothing of a male figure in profile, turned toward the right. The left arm seems to be extended forward and raised, possibly holding a short sword. These details are not sufficient to establish to which category this gladiator belonged. A discussion of representations of left-handed gladiators in funerary stelae and pictorial graffiti as well as textual graffiti appears in Coleman 1996.

Bagnall, R. S. et al., Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna (2016): 377.<br/> Coleman, K. M. 1996. “A Left-Handed Gladiator at Pompeii.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114: 194–6.

Drawing of a gladiator