Amphitheatre of Pompeii depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of the Riot in the Amphitheatre (Casa della Rissa nell'Anfiteatro) in Pompeii (59-79 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. The riot between the Nucerians and the Pompeians is depicted in the fresco. In 59 AD the amphitheatre was the scene of a bloody fight in which Pompean and Nucerian spectators were killed and injured, as a result, the Senate banned spectacles in the amphitheatre and exiled both the organizer of the games and the men who
Amphitheatre of Pompeii depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of the Riot in the Amphitheatre (Casa della Rissa nell'Anfiteatro) in Pompeii (59-79 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. The riot between the Nucerians and the Pompeians is depicted in the fresco. In 59 AD the amphitheatre was the scene of a bloody fight in which Pompean and Nucerian spectators were killed and injured, as a result, the Senate banned spectacles in the amphitheatre and exiled both the organizer of the games and the men who had provokes the incident. The bird eye view of the scene allows us to identify the amphitheatre with its external staircases, the palaestra with its swimming pool, and the large shady square in which ravelling salesmen are selling their wares.
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