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I have selected the range of 86-500 with the following arguments: the Capitolia were installed in 86, so it would be improbably for these athletes have careers before that times whilst gathering enough popularity in Rome for them to be depicted in an agonistic-oriented mosaic before that time. Secondly, the mosaic itself has been dated by Floriani Squarciapino as being from the fourth century AD, making it unlikely for these athletes to have obtained victories too far beyond that range. However, Newby offers an earlier estimate of third century AD.
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