The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

One of the tombs bears the epitaph of a gladiator carved into a piece of marble. The inscription is a “precious document for understanding the role and memory of these fighters in Roman society ...

Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection ... who was popularized by the Gladiator film ...