A-dictionary-of-greek-and-roman-antiquities-william-smith

AMPHITHEATRUM. AMPHITHEATRUM. 87
the second ftlory we have the tiro outer colon was also pierced with windows. Above the onler
nades repeated, and the radiating walls of the corridor of this story is a mnxaninr, ur small
am slack are continued up through this story ; middle stnry, in front of which and above tho
and between them are staircases leading out on to inner colonnade were a few tiers of wooden
tamed to a sort of terrace (pnjecwtw) which runs
ramd the buildinj? between the first and second
ranges of seats, and increases the facilities for the
spectators getting to their proper places. Sloping
down from this praedMCtio to the level of the top of
the jadataL. and supported by the inner series of
radiating walls, are the lower series of seats. On
the third story (above the floor of which the details
sre almost entirely conjectural), we hare again
the double colonnade, the inner wall of which
rises immediately behind the top of the second
ranis of seats, with only the interval of a narrow
cceas was given by nathe
wall just
benches for the lowest class of spectators. Abov«
this merxanine was a gallery, which ran right
round the building, and the front of which is sup
posed to have been formed by a range of columns.
It seems that the terrace formed by the lop of
this gallery would be also available tor spectators.
And, lastly, the very summit of the wall was
formed into a sort of terrace which was, no doubt,
occupied by the men who worked the rope* of tho
rrJurium. The doors which opened from the staireases
and corridors on to the interior of the am
phitheatre were designated by the very appropriate
name of vamitoria. The whole of the interior was
called eacwa. The following section (from II ru
exhibits these arrangements as clearlv as tbey can
be shown without the aid of perspective.
SECTION OP THK CORRIDORS, STAIRS, AMD SKATS.
I. II. III. IV. The four stories of the exterior. ll. The space on the summit of the wall for th«
A. The arena-
managers of the velarium.
C.DRF.
B. The podium.
Z. The steps which surrounded the building on
The four corridors.
the outside.
a If r The three rnaeniajia.
a. Stairs from the third colonnade to the po
K. The upper i*_B-> gallery -, L. I' The terrace over it dium.
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