TEATE
MARRUCINORUM (Chieti), ancient Regio IV, modern Italy.
COORDENATES: 42º20’49.18’’N
// 14º09’48.21’’E
TIPOLOGY: Roman
theatre. Urban.
DATE: Second
half of I A.D. or first II A.D.
TRANSFORMATIONS: Orchestra
was transformed in colimbetra for
water games.
CAPACITY:
CAVEA: Facing
north-north-west. 84 m. diameter. Built against slope the centre of cavea.
ORCHESTRA:
STAGE
BUILDING: Under modern buildings.
LOCATION: In
south-west part of town.
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: If
you pretend to find some columnatio in
the scaenae
frons you will find clothes drying in the sun, anyway I have always thought
both are pretty.
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