CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

For another pottery flask depicting gladiators see the example in the Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, no. 70 in E. Köhne and C. Ewigleben, Gladiators and Caesars. On the example presented here, one side depicts a fully-armed venator fighting a bear, with an inscription above, and the other side depicts a bestiarius between a bull and a bear tethered together.