COORDINATES: 46º41’35.13N
// 2º31’21.35’’E
TIPOLOGY: Rural
ritual Gallo-Roman theatre. Not urban.
DATE:
Last I or first II A.D.
TRANSFORMATIONS: III
and IV A.D.
CAPACITY: 5.000
spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
south-west. 85 m. diameter. Rest on hillside. There were three maeniana: Ima cavea with 10 rows of
seats in 4 cunei.
ORCHESTRA: 27
m. diameter, surrounded by podium,
2,6 m. high.
STAGE
BUILDING: Scene building 18,5 x 7 m. It was roofed by 4 Doric
columns.
LOCATION: Ancient
Derventum is in modern Drevant, 45 klm. south of Bourges.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Grenier, Albert; “Manuel
d’archeologie Gallo-Romain”. Paris, Éditions A. Et J. Picard, 1958. // Landes,
Christian (Ed.); “Le gout du theatre a
Rome et en Gaule romaine”. Musée de Lattes, 1989. // 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.
““It is snowing on my roof and on the trees. The wall
and the garden are white,
the path black, and the house has given way without a sound. It is snowing.”
the path black, and the house has given way without a sound. It is snowing.”
–Pierre Reverdy-
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