DOI Artikel:
Cushing, William: The Theatre of Thoricus: supplementary report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8561#0048
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THE THEATRE OF THORICUS.
the west. (See Plate II. Fig. 1.) As the people approached the
west end of the theatre from their homes in the plain, some entered
by the west parodos ; others, whose places were so assigned, ascended
by the special terrace and viaduct V Y; while those who were to use
the other rear entrance took the path which skirted the wall, passed
under the arch, and so, with little extra effort, found their seats. The
formation of the steep, rocky hillside, the raised walk at the west end,
and the situation of the necropolis at the rear made no other approach
possible. As the tide of theatre-goers always came from the west
and went no farther than the second abutment or inclined plane Zr
this abutment was not provided with a passage-way underneath.
Note. — This fragment was found by the writer within the theatre. It is
apparently a portion of an unguent vase. It is about three inches high. The
decoration is in glazed black upon a brown ground. The front bears the lower
portion of three figures, all clad in the himation or, possibly, in the chiton and
chlamys, and advancing in the same direction. The vine-branches pendent before
each figure indicate a Dionysiac subject. The back bears no figures.
THE THEATRE OF THORICUS.
the west. (See Plate II. Fig. 1.) As the people approached the
west end of the theatre from their homes in the plain, some entered
by the west parodos ; others, whose places were so assigned, ascended
by the special terrace and viaduct V Y; while those who were to use
the other rear entrance took the path which skirted the wall, passed
under the arch, and so, with little extra effort, found their seats. The
formation of the steep, rocky hillside, the raised walk at the west end,
and the situation of the necropolis at the rear made no other approach
possible. As the tide of theatre-goers always came from the west
and went no farther than the second abutment or inclined plane Zr
this abutment was not provided with a passage-way underneath.
Note. — This fragment was found by the writer within the theatre. It is
apparently a portion of an unguent vase. It is about three inches high. The
decoration is in glazed black upon a brown ground. The front bears the lower
portion of three figures, all clad in the himation or, possibly, in the chiton and
chlamys, and advancing in the same direction. The vine-branches pendent before
each figure indicate a Dionysiac subject. The back bears no figures.