“This graveyard gives us the unique opportunity to connect historical figures with their bones. It provides a very sound picture about gladiators,” said Martin Steskal, deputy director of excavations
. These groups defined the different types of gladiators depending on their clothing, weapons, and fighting styles.with the alias Palumbos, translated as “male dove”, was one of the gladiators of Ephesus. His grave and funerary stele were discovered during the excavations in 1993. His wife Hymnis had commissioned the stele to commemorate him in the 2nd century AD.ExaminationsPalumbos and his fellow gladiators had a special diet that mostly consisted of plant-based food.
This finding indicates that gladiatorial confrontations were not necessarily to the death. Instead, gladiators survived and received quality medical attention for their injuries from healers called medici.. They did not always die in combat as movies insinuate, because their owners did not want their investments to be in vain,” told Steskal. Institutionalised gladiator fights were a booming business that promised plenty of money.
This helped scientists conclude that once a gladiator was sentenced to death in the arena, the defeated fighter would kneel before his opponent to receive the death blow or lay face down, if he was incapacitated, to be stabbed in the back. Today, visitors who want to find Ephesus's gladiators in the site of the necropolis will find “nothing more than a fig garden” in the words of Steskal.
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