This fragmentary marble relief is broken away on three sides. It depicts a retiarius fighting a secutor. The retiarius stands on a platform (pons, or bridge), he holds a trident and knife in his left hand, and in his right hand he holds a stone which he is about to hurl at the secutor, who is mounting the ramp toward him. Between the feet of the retiarius is a pile of stones. The secutor wears a helmet with a plain crest and has a rectangular shield on his extended right arm and a gladius in his left. Although we can identify the types of gladiator as a retiarius and a secutor, when they fought for the possession of a platform as portrayed on this relief, they are called pontiarii (‘bridge men’). Inscriptions identify the gladiators as [Ἀγορ]άκριτος, '[Agor]kritos', left; and Μάρισκος, Mariskos, right. In the space below the pons the inscription reads ἀπελύθη ἔξω λούδου - 'Freed from the games or from the ludus'.
