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Illustrations of scenes of combat between Roman and Dacian troops from Trajan's Column (infosec.pub)
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[–] notabot@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Interesting. The last panel in particular looks more like an execution in gladiotorial combat, but all four panels seem to depict one-on-one combat that you might expect in the arena. I wonder if that's because that's what the artist knew, or to make more familiar to the people viewing it, or whether I'm imagining things.

P.S. In b4 obligatory 'Is this loss?'