Statue of 2 .. 000-year-old was kept in the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbein in Hamburg. His form is a bare-chested woman who resembles his right hand holding a sickle objects.
Author of the study, believes the statue of Alfonso Manas woman holds SICA, a short curved sword. Sica itself is related to the type of weapon thraex or Thracian gladiator.
This type of helmet wearing Gladiator hairy, small shields and protective metal feet made when fighting. So proclaimed National Geographic, Sunday (22/04/2012).
For some time, experts have identified ancient curved objects in the right hand of the statue as a strigil, equipment for cleaning the body. However, that description does not match the pose of the statue.
Manas argues, when he was cleaning himself, "It makes no sense to lift equipment tangannnya staring at the ground. She also wore clothes to cover his genitals, if it is being cleaned up properly naked."
According to Manas, degrading poses head and raised his hands high in a victory gesture in Roman art. The winner also will put their helmets or shields so that the whole audience could see his face.
While appearing topless gladiator was already the norm. "One of the rules is a gladiator fight, both men and women have to fight with bare chest," said Manas.
