La venatio picta di Campester e Marsinus nell’anfiteatro di Uthina: nuove riflessioni

In the amphitheater of Uthina (now Oudhna, Tunisia), the excavation of the
room adjacent to the main west entrance has uncovered a large portion of the collapsed vault, on which a crowded scene of venatio with bears and venatores is painted. The new interpretations proposed in this article closely relate the pictorial subject to the inscriptions that enrich it, thus placing the venatio within the context of the sodalitates active in the colony. The relationship with the spectacle building remains in the background as an essential guiding thread along which to develop working hypotheses