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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, CIRCUS MAXIMUS (search)
f the carceres was the box of the magistrate presiding over the games, from which he gave the signal for the start with a mappa (Cassiod. Var. loc. cit.; Suet. Nero 22). At each end of the carceres were towers and battlements suggesting a walled town, and this part of the circus was sometimes called oppidum (Varro, cit.; Fest. 184). The east end of the circus was curved, with a gateway in the centre through which the procession seems to have usually entered at the beginning of the games. In 81 A.D. this gateway was replaced by a triple arch, erected by the senate in honour of Titus and his capture of Jerusalem (CIL vi. 944). It is represented on the Marble Plan (fr. 38). A podium, or raised platform, surrounded the arena. On this were the chairs of high officials, and from it the cavea rose gradually. On the spina were the two obelisks, the eggs and dolphins (see above), and at each end the metae or goals, three cones of gilt bronze (Cassiod. Var. iii. 51. 7). The altar of CONSUS (q.v
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)
stores Aqua Marcia, 25, 417. 80Inaugural games in Amphitheatrum Flavium (Colosseum), 6. Great fire of Titus: destroys Capitoline Temple, 300; Porticus of Octavia, 427; and its library, 85; Temple of Isis, 284; Theatrum of Balbus, 513; scaena of Pompey's Theatre, 517; Thermae of Agrippa, 518; Pantheon, 383; Saepta, 460, and Diribitorium, 151; Domus Tiberiana, 192; Basilica Neptuni, 81; Domus Aurea on Palatine, 172, 195. 80-81Arches in Circus Maximus, 45, 119. 81Titus repairs Aqua Claudia, 22, 413. 81-96Reign of Domitian: he restores Temple of Apollo Palatinus, 18, 19; Atrium Vestae, 59; Temple of Augustus, 62, 64, 84, 260; of Castor, 103; Domus Tiberiana, 192; Temple of Isis, 284; of Juppiter Stator (?), 304: Porticus of Octavia, 427; Porticus Vipsania (?), 430; Theatre of Balbus, 513: he builds Aula Adonidis on Palatine (?), 1; Arae incendii Neronis, 30;,/item> several tri