Description of Plate VII.
VIEW AT THE SOUTH-EAST END.
This plate is from an excellent drawing of Signor Cicconetti, made chiefly from the photographs, in order to explain them more clearly. The photographs are evidence of historical facts, which no drawing alone can be, because drawings are always liable to errors, accidentally or otherwise. Unfortunately drawings are very often made to suit the idea either of the artist who draws the object as he thinks “it must have been,” or to suit the view of the person who orders the drawing. These drawings can be compared with the photographs throughout, and make them more easy to understand.
A. Wooden framework (?), cradle (?), or dry dock (?).
B, B. Marble slabs placed upright, to serve as struts to support the galleys standing on the frame.
C, C. Walls of the central passage.
D. Line of one of the canals.
E, E. Ancient tufa walls, with the dens behind them.
F, F. Podium and state gallery.
G, G. Principal gallery.
H, H. Second gallery.
I. Top gallery, added after the fire.
K. Drain or cloaca.
L. Passage for animals.
M. State entrance and corridor.
N. Modern buttress.
THE COLOSSEUM.
PLATE VIII.
PLAN OF THE SOUTHERN HALF, AT THE LOWEST LEVEL,
Shewing the Excavations in 1874 and 1875.
THE COLOSSEUM—PLAN AT THE LOWEST LEVEL IN 1875.