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aragon6:
The fighting amongst the real and actual gladiators was just a part of a larger show covering various 'entertainments'.  Variety was very important it seems.

saturn8000:
When I was in London, I saw a carved stone that had been in Turkey, depicting two female Gladiators. That story of the female gladiators grave found in London has been around for quite a while now. A documentry was on a while ago about it.

LordBest:
I know there were republican reverses with gladiators,and i know sestertii with the colloseum minted by Gordian III had gladiators fighting, but no portraits. >:(
                       LordBest. 8)

curtislclay:
    The only Republican type I can think of, Crawford 494/30, RSC Livineia 12 (p. 58), shows a special type of gladiator, namely beast-fighters, fighting a lion, a tiger, and a boar.
    Similarly Roman contorniates, struck c. 356-425 AD, have a couple of types of beast-fighters battling animals, but none, I think, of gladiators fighting each other.
    I think gladiators are depicted quite often on lamps and in mosaics, however.

*Alex:
There is this too.............

Gladiator cup, ca. 50–80 A.D.; Neronian–Early Flavianic
Roman; Found at Montagnole, southern France
Glass; H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm), Diam. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

Alex.

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