Part of a Roman wall mosaic showing a boxer on a podium. The man has antique gloves (caestus) on his hands. Below it is a panel depicting a rooster approaching a shelf with a pine cone and a fig. The object was discovered in one of the ancient cities destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE. The artifact is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
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