Rocca first wrote about the Jewish gladiator in Pompeii in an academic article around 15 years ago. He recently revisited the topic, bringing additional evidence of the helmet’s Jewish identity ...

open image in gallery New evidence suggests that the gladiator, whose helmet was buried in a Suffolk field, probably came from the Pompeii area of southern Italy (Thomas Möllmann) The gladiator ...

Organized by the office of Pompeii’s archaeological ... More than a dozen other such helmets have been unearthed in the gladiators’ barracks, along with assorted weaponry.

The helmet found in Pompeii’s gladiator training grounds, now housed in a Naples archaeological museum, features a seven-frond palm tree weighted down with dates above its wide brim and metal ...

The helmet found in Pompeii’s gladiator training grounds, now housed in a Naples archaeological museum, features a seven-frond palm tree weighted down with dates above its wide brim and metal ...

Even though this Roman gladiator's helmet was used during ceremonial occasions ... and training barracks in Pompeii. Archaeology is revealing how much more complex these entertainments were ...

Oxford suggest the letters on the stamp are probably identical to those on a gladiator helmet found in the famous gladiatorial barracks in Pompeii itself (buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD).