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Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00mauauoft (find matches)
Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Augustales (p. 100),who had the right to use bisellia, but who nevertheless couldnot become members of the city council, and were not rankedon a social equality with the occupants of the middle section. The seats of the ima cavea and media cavea were reachedthrough a vaulted passage (4), which, in accordance with ancientusage, we may call a crypt. It ran under the first seats of thesecond range, and stairs led from it to both divisions. It mightbe entered either from the two broad corridors leading to thearena, or directly from the west side by means of two separatepassages (c, d, on the plan). It is, however, interrupted at themiddle on each side of the Amphitheatre. On the west sidethe prolongation of the crypt would have interfered with theuse of the corridor leading to the Death Gate; but as no suchreason existed for blocking the east branch, it is probable thatthe designers of the Amphitheatre interrupted both branchesof the crypt in order to force the spectators who had seats in
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THE AMPHITHEATRE 211 the lower and middle divisions of the south half of the struc-ture to enter and leave by the somewhat inconvenient southentrances, which are situated in an angle of the city wall. Hadthe crypt been carried completely around, the crowd wouldalways have pressed into the building through the north en-trances, which opened toward the city, thus causing confusion,if not danger, on occasions of special interest. In the corridor leading from the north entrance, as may beseen on the plan, a row of stones with square holes in themwere placed in the pavement near the left wall. In these stakescould be set and connected by ropes, thus making a narrow pas-sageway along the side. The purpose of the arrangement is.not difficult to understand. Through the north corridor thegladiators entered and left the building, and the wild beasts. < -+ t- t ! i .< \ \ ! / /

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