Gladiators Memnon and Valentinus sparred almost 2,000 years ago. An analysis suggests that the fight took place in what is now Colchester, England.
LONDON — Elaborately armed, two gladiators named Memnon and Valentinus faced each other in brutal combat almost 2,000 years ago.
Archaeologists studying the lettering scratched onto the pot’s surface and its clay material concluded that the description was carved while the clay was still soft before it was fired in a Colchester kiln. That means, according to Davis, that Memnon and Valentinus met for battle nearby. The researchers concluded that the vase was commissioned, designed and fired locally, upending previous assumptions that it had been imported from elsewhere in Europe or that it may have been manufactured as a generic with details added afterward. “This can’t have been a generic souvenir,” Davis said.
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