COORDINATES: 43º26’40.98’’N
// 11º54’00.93’’E
TIPOLOGY: Roman
cultic theatre. Not urban.
DATE: II
B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS:
CAPACITY:
CAVEA: facing
south-west, 45 m. diameter. There are remains of 4 lowest rows of seats, now
covered.
ORCHESTRA: 12,5
m. diameter, paved in stone slabs.
STAGE
BUILDING: Proscaenium was
rectilinear, also the scaenae frons.
Pulpitum was 18 x 6,5 m.
LOCATION: The
theatre is connected with temple, 105 m. away, in the hill of Castelsecco, san
Cornelio, 4 klm. south from modern Arezzo.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Tosi, Giovana; “Gli
edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. Roma, Quasar, 2003. // Sear, Frank; “Roman theatres: an architectural study”.
Oxford University Press, 2006.// Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio
(eds); “Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”.
Rome: SEAT, 1995.
OUT OF PRINT: When
I visited the place I was not sure that the theatre were there, I was not sure
I was in the right place... but it was, I could check it months later, checking
some plans.
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