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Rome: Palatine Hill, Stadium of Domitian, excedra portal (2001 photo)
Rome: Palatine Hill, Stadium of Domitian, excedra portal (photo: Athena Review 2001)
The Stadium of Domitian, built in AD 70-80, was used as a monumental garden as well as a stadium,
The main surviving structure is the two story excedra which held the tribunal or grandstand. This image provides details of the brick-faced excedra wall with a portal, similar to others in the excedra. It was part of a roofed structure, as attested by numerous beam sockets in the wall. Traces of painted plaster survive on the wall.
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