Ocriculum
Theatre (Otricoli, Italy)
GPS Coordinates Theatre
Type: Date of
Construction: cavea
width 79m, orchestra diameter 15m Seating
Capacity: Architectural
Drawings: Plan
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Location
Otricoli, Italy
Roman
Theatre
Augustan, 27 BCE - 14 CE
Dimensions:
- The Roman Theatre at Oriculum
- The roman theatre leans with its back on the slope of the hill, while an artificial levelling supported by substructures now hidden was set before the cavea (stands): one of these, very imposing, decorated with niches on the front, remains on the Tiber's side.
The level ground hides the underground shaft in which the S. Vittore brook flows, coming out openly downhill near the aforesaid substructure. The cavea is 79 m. in diameter, 'it uses the ground behind, only partly leaning on it, and on both ends is built with substructure-rooms, three on the left, one on the right; it is divided in three parts, summa (highest part), media (middle) and ima (lowest). More....
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