Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul

From LiveScience, link:

http://www.livescience.com/14650-roman-gladiator-tombstone-epitaph.html

Note the link to "Top 10 Ways We Deal With The Dead".

Interesting story about how things could go wrong in gladiatorial games.

Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul

Owen Jarus, LiveScience ContributorDate: 17 June 2011 Time: 07:13 AM ET

An enigmatic message on a Roman gladiator's 1,800-year-old tombstone has finally been decoded, telling a treacherous tale.

The epitaph and art on the tombstone suggest the gladiator, named Diodorus, lost the battle (and his life) due to a referee's error, according to Michael Carter, a professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. Carter studies gladiator contests and other spectacles in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.

He examined the stone, which was discovered a century ago in Turkey, trying to determine what the drawing and inscription meant. [Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal With the Dead]...