Heritage asset
Bas-relief from Aminternum, representing the fight between two bustuarii. The Bustuarii were a kind of gladiators in Ancient Rome, who fought about the bustum, or pile of a deceased person, in the ceremony of his obsequies.
Period
Roman, 2nd century AD
Size
73cm x 170cm x 48cm
Material
limestone
Conserved at
L’Aquila, the Abruzzo National Museum of Art
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