There is a moment in "Gladiator II" when Paul Mescal's gladiator Lucius has decided upon a course of action and, jaw clenched and biceps flexing in steely determination, he is led to a secret ...

According to English Heritage, the figure is a secutor, a class of gladiator with specific armor. The charity noted that the knife handle depicts a “strong muscular fighter with heavy equipment ...

The intricately designed copper alloy object represents a secutor gladiator, a strong muscular fighter with heavy equipment including a large shield, sword and helmet. The 2,000-year-old figure ...

According to English Heritage, the type of gladiator displayed on the knife is a secutor, or a large warrior who wore heavy ...

The dagger has a handle cast from carved copper alloy which depicts what’s known as a secutor gladiator with his shield. Secutor gladiators were a highly trained subset of gladiators trained in ...

He ends up sold into slavery, and, like his father, becomes a prized gladiator. Eventually, Lucius encounters the armor his father wore, placed on display in a kind of shrine for the other ...

The copper alloy knife handle depicts a class of gladiator known as a “secutor,” according to conservation charity English Heritage, which cares for the historic site where the artefact was found.