The Borghese Gladiator, Louvre, Paris. Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting a swordsman fighting a mounted warrior, possibly Achilles fighting an Amazon, created at Ephesus about 100 BC. Gladiatoris statua vetus marmorea. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Cannetti from Copperplates of the most beautiful ancient statues of Rome, Calcografia di piu belle statue antiche a Roma, engraved by Cannetti all'Arco della Ciambella, published by Gaetano Quojani, Rome, 1779.

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