Painting from the Amphitheatre. Hunter with lioness

This is thought to have decorated the balustrade of the podium of the amphitheatre in Mérida. The work represents an very common image in the amphitheatre: a hunter attacked by a wild cat. When it was discovered it was being used on a tomb outside the amphitheatre, and was concealed by the stone slab, which accounts for the painting’s good state of conservation.