During archaeological excavations carried out outside the building on the Santa Maria Nova estate on the Appian Way, in the area of the ancient villa of the brothers Sextus Quintilius Condianus and Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus, members of a senatorial family and consuls in 151 AD, who were executed by Emperor Commodus in 182 AD for plotting against him, numerous Roman structures dating back to the 2nd century AD were uncovered. Among these, the sensational discovery inside a bathhouse stands out: a perfectly preserved and visible black and white mosaic floor depicting a retiarius gladiator named Montanus, kneeling, wielding a trident and net, and wearing a galerus, a metal shoulder guard attached to the top of the sleeve, used to protect against blows from gladius blows aimed at the face. The scene shows in the upper part, the referee, the summa rudis, with a stick, who is about to decree the winner of the fight (next to it is the name Antonius), and a part of the retiarius' opponent with a portion of a gladius.