Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . ium or what-ever other civil structure first embodied this unionof Greek and Roman forms. The elevation ofthe theater shows four stories, three arched andthe lowest flat-topped. Its structure has a com-mon combination of the late Republic: the opusquadratum of the heavy piers, archivolts and but-tresses is of heavy squared blocks of the samelocal pudding-stone as the colony arch; while thecore and foundations are of irregular tufa scales,the opus incertum is of the broken river pebblesand the small and carefullv tooled blocks thatform the bulk of the facing
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . ium or what-ever other civil structure first embodied this unionof Greek and Roman forms. The elevation ofthe theater shows four stories, three arched andthe lowest flat-topped. Its structure has a com-mon combination of the late Republic: the opusquadratum of the heavy piers, archivolts and but-tresses is of heavy squared blocks of the samelocal pudding-stone as the colony arch; while thecore and foundations are of irregular tufa scales,the opus incertum is of the broken river pebblesand the small and carefullv tooled blocks thatform the bulk of the facing are of calcareoustufa, not very different from the structure of thewalls of Spello, of the age of the triumvirs. The most striking feature is, however, thegreat buttresses of large slightly bossed blocksw^hich divide each main bay of the theater facadefrom top to bottom and give picturesqueness andvigor to the outlines of the facade which wouldotherwise seem somewhat flat. They make oneforget to miss the superposed Doric, Ionic and. Aosta, Theater: end wall r;::^! B r:;V:-;|
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