CHAPTER XXIII

. THE THEATRE COLONNADE

_Excavation_ (October 25, 1766, to April 7, 1769, and December 10, 1791, to February 20, 1794): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 195-228, pt. 2, pp. 46-48, 51, 52, 54, 151-153, pt. 3, p. 273.

_Remains, identification, restoration_: MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 3, pp. 12-15, pl. 2-6; GELL, Pompeiana (Edit. of 1852), p. 184; GARRUCCI, Il Ludus Gladiatorius, ovvero Convitti dei Gladiatori, in his Questioni Pompeiane (Naples, 1853), pp. 1-8; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 253-262. The suggestion has lately been made that the colonnade may have been designed as the Gymnasium of pre-Roman Pompeii (PETERSEN, Ueber die sogen. Gladiatorenkaserne in Pompeji, Roem. Mitth., vol. 14 (1899), pp. 103-104).

_Graffiti_: C. I. L. IV. pp. 157-159.

_Exhibitions of gladiators_ [p. 161]: C. I. L. X. 1074, and references to Chap. XXX.

_Paintings_ [pp. 161-162]: HELBIG, Wandegemaelde, nos. 322, 1512.

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