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Its construction began under the emperor Urinal, in 72 d. C. about, and the building venne inaugurated from its son Tito in the 80 d. C.. Domitian important above all alterations operò in the underground part. The construction of the Coliseum could be been funded with the booty of the conquest of Jerusalem , of 70 d. C..

The edificazione avvenne in the area occupied from the gardens of the Gold Domus of Nerone, built after the large fire of Rome of 64. The operation served to the return to public use of the city spaces privatized from Nerone. In the point in which risen the building is found a pool (the stagnum cited from the Martial poet).

Simultaneously to the amphitheater they came built some buildings of service for the games: the ludi (barracks and places of training for the gladiators, of whom we know the Magnus, the Gallicus, the Matutinus and the Dacicus), the barracks of the detachment of the sailors of the fleet of Miseno assigned to the maneuver of the velarium (Castros Misenatium), the Summum Choragium and the Arsenal (depots of the arms and of the instrumentations), Fights) and the Spoliarum or changing room. As well as an amphitheater "twin" smaller said also it Flavio that all now quite is preserved in the town of Pious

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In the neighborhoods it was present a statue colossale of Nerone, from which the legend wants that you derive the name Coliseum. After the killing of this emperor the statue venne remodelled to represent Sol Invictus the god of the Sun, adding the appropriate solar crown. The Giant venne therefore moved from its original arrangement to make place to the temple of Venus and Rome under Adriano. The site of the base of the statue colossale after the movement at present is marked from a modern base in tufa.

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The outside facade is articulated in four orders: the three inferior with 80 arches on pillars, to which lay themselves semicolonne on pedestals, while the fourth one is constituted from a full wall, scompartita from lesene in correspondence of the pillars of the arches. In the strokes of wall between the lesene 40 small windows open themselves quadrangolari, an every one two squares, and immediately above the level of the windows have placed three brackets projecting for every square, in which the horseraces of wood had lived that came used to open and to close the velarium, the cloth of covering that put right the onlookers, maneuvered from a detachment of sailors of the fleet of.

The semicolonne and the lesene of four orders have to leave from the low capitals tuscanici, ionici, corinzi and corinzi to leaves fishbones. The first three orders repeat the same visible succession on the outside facade of the theater of Marcello.

The Coliseum an area of respect surrounded by you pave in travertine and delimited from stones (some still to their place on the side towards the Celio).

The cavea and entered him for the public Section of the Coliseum you Enlarge Section of the Coliseum

To the inside the cavea with the step for the places of the onlookers was subdivided in five horizontal areas (maeniana), reserved to different categories of public, whose degree decreased with it increase some height: the inferior area, reserved to the senators and to their families, had spacious and low step that accommodated seats of wood (subsellia); followed the maenianum primum, with eight step of marble, the maenianum Still with step in marble, and finally the maenianum summum, with about eleven wooden step to the inside of the portico than coronava the cavea (porticus in summa cavea) : the restive architectural of this finish belong to the remakes of period severiana or of Gordiano TWO. An area of places in the highest part, considered the worst, was reserved to the women, to which, from Augusto in then, always was forbidden to blend itself to other onlookers.

The different areas was separated from highs podiums (precinctio), in which the doors of access opened themselves (vomitoria), protected from barriers in marble (risalenti to the you restore of TWO century d.C. ). On the step I am often carved the indications of the places and on the balustrade of the podium came registered the names of the senators to that the inferior places were reserved.

The onlookers reached their place entering from the their arches reserved. Each of 74 arches for the public a numeral it was marked by, carved on the key of time, to agree to the onlookers of to reach rapidly the actual place.

* The two arches in correspondence of the smaller aces, preceded outside from an avancorpo, were reserved to the highs characters accommodated in two platforms today itself. They introduce each in a spacious area including three wedges, scompartito from pillars. The route had the walls put on in marble and presented a decoration to plaster on the time, still the original one of period flavia. The southern platform, that accommodated the emperor, had also another more directed access, across a criptoportico that gave directly to the outside one. * Twelve arches were reserved to the Senators and introduced in halls that reached the ring more inside: hence with a short staircase it is reached inferior ill area of the cavea. Also these passages were put on of marble. * The other arches gave access to the numerous staircases to an or two flights that carried to the superior areas. The walls here were put on of plaster, also on the times.

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INSIDE of the Coliseum

The arena presented a paving leaves in masonry and part in wood, and came covered from sand, constantly cleaned, to absorb the blood of the killings.

Under the arena they had been realized environments of service, articulated in a spacious central passage long the greater board and in twelve halls curvilinei, arranged symmetrically on two side. Here they found themselves the freight elevator that allowed to make to ascend in the arena the machinery or the animals employed in the games and that, in number of 80, distributed themselves on four of the halls: the restive at present preserved report themselves to a remake of III or IV century d. C..

The structures of service be supplied of separate entrances:

* Underground Arcades to the end of the main board gave access to the central passage under the arena, and were used for the entrance of animals and machinery. * The two arches on the greater board gave directly in the arena and were destined to the entrance of the protagonists of the games, gladiators and animals too heavy to to be lifted from the underground. * THE ARENA was accessible for the attendants also from open passages in the arcade of service that ran them around under the podium of the inferior area of the cavea. To the arcade it arrives from the ring plus inside, the same that used the Senators to reach the actual places.

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The building leans on a platform in travertine sopraelevata with respect to the neighboring area. The foundations are constituted from a large public in cementizio of about 13 m of thickness, covered to the outside one from a wall in brick.