Interior of Pompeii ampitheatre during the Games. Naked gladiators battle wild animals, bulls, boars and tigers in the arena as part of a Venatio. Chromolithograph by Dietrich after an illustration by G. Cel from Antonio Niccolini’s Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restaurations), published by Fausto Niccolini, Naples, 1898. Antonio was grandson of the architect Antonio Niccolini Sr.

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