The amphitheatre was an important building in roman times. the ruins of the amphitheatre were only discovered in 1988, when builders were digging foundations for the new art gallery. Archaeologists had long suspected that the roman town of Londinium had an amphitheatre. but as Jenny Hall, Museum of London’s roman curator, explains, “we’d been looking outside the city wall and this amphitheatre, unusually, is inside the city wall”. the ruins of the structure have been well preserved and musealized in situ, and you can still see the remains of the original walls, drainage system, and even the sand that filled the arena.
L'anfiteatro era un edificio importante di epoca romana. Le rovine sono state scoperte solo nel 1988, quando costruttori stavano effettuando scavi per la nuova galleria d'arte. Gli archeologi hanno a lungo sospettato che la città romana di Londinium avesse un anfiteatro, ma come afferma Jenny Hall, curatrice del Museo di Londra "stavamo cercando al di fuori delle mura della città e questo anfiteatro, insolitamente, si trovava invece all'interno delle mura della città". le rovine della struttura sono stati ben conservate e musealizzate in situ, e si possono ancora vedere i resti delle mura originali, il sistema di drenaggio, e perfino la sabbia dell'arena.
DI SALVO, S. (2011). L’anfiteatro romano di Londinium. In AGATHON (pp. 41-46). offset studio.
L’anfiteatro romano di Londinium
DI SALVO, Santina
2011-01-01
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The amphitheatre was an important building in roman times. the ruins of the amphitheatre were only discovered in 1988, when builders were digging foundations for the new art gallery. Archaeologists had long suspected that the roman town of Londinium had an amphitheatre. but as Jenny Hall, Museum of London’s roman curator, explains, “we’d been looking outside the city wall and this amphitheatre, unusually, is inside the city wall”. the ruins of the structure have been well preserved and musealized in situ, and you can still see the remains of the original walls, drainage system, and even the sand that filled the arena.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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