In the montage “Gladiators”, which can be seen until 16 October, archaeologists participate on behalf of the Italian museums cooperating with this exhibition. Parts go through a strict protocol overseen by the MARQ director. Manuel Olcinaand by the museum’s archaeologists, to guarantee the perfect state of preservation, placement and preservation.
First Vice President and Vice President for Culture, Julia Parrathis morning he visited the museum to watch the arrival of the pieces that will make up the exhibition and the progress of the assembly work in the three rooms reserved for this temporary exhibition.
“We are very fortunate that Alicante will once again have an internationally recognized exhibition of excellence and also add an attraction for the public in general, on dates that are very important, also Easter, and for Tourism”.
Julia Parra confirmed during the tour that the work is going at a good pace and everything will be ready for the opening ceremony, which will be attended by the Italian ambassador, Riccardo Guarigliaand the curator of the exhibition, Rossella DistrictDirector of the Colosseum in Rome for over thirty years.
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The exhibition on gladiators comes after the exhibition dedicated to the Etruscans, which closed on the 20th with 76,000 visits, and the new delay in the arrival of terracotta soldiers from Xian.
Among the most outstanding pieces, you can see four helmets It belongs to a Thraex (Thracian gladiator), Murmillo (Gaulian gladiator), Secutor and Provocator with two visors from the Pompeii Gladiator Barracks. Also, and from the same place, those who carry a galerus or a Rhetian gladiator’s bodyguard, a net, ax or secutor gladiator’s leg guards as weapons, a pilum or a magnificent gladius, a short sword, a wrought ivory hilt.
In addition, you can admire some tomb inscriptions Marble originals of real gladiators, such as those of Secutor Urbicus, the murmillo Quintus Sossius Albus, and those of characters associated with the ludus, houses, or training schools where gladiators were trained.
The exhibition will occupy three temporary rooms of MARQ. four thematic blocks. The first focuses on the “origin and development of the gladiator shows (Munera and Venationes)” based on the funerary context and hunting tradition.
“Who were the gladiators?” His question is answered in the second part, the central core of the Exhibition, and he shows the different facets and facets of his figures, from their daily life and training to the different types of gladiators and fighting techniques.
The third block is the “Colosseum and amphitheater of the Roman Empire”, which focuses on the construction of this architecture developed to accommodate these wars.
Finally, “A day at the arena” includes activities before the fight, from the preparation of the games to the staging and promotion of the event.