Oscan inscription [[p. 140]]: see references below, [pp. 530]-[531].
[CHAPTER XXI]. THE LARGE THEATRE
Excavation of the two theatres and the court behind the Large Theatre (July, 1764, to March, 1765; and December, 1791, to February, 1796): Fiorelli, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 158-165, pt. 2, pp. 46-63. For the Small Theatre, see also vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 69, 75.
Paintings at Pompeii relating to the stage: Helbig, Wandgemälde, nos. 1464-1476; Sogliano, Le pitture murali Campane, nos. 740-752; Maass, Affreschi scenici di Pompeii, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 53 (1881), pp. 109-159, and Mon. dell' Inst., vol. 11, pl. 30-32.
Remains of the Large Theatre: Mazois, Les ruines de Pompéi, vol. 4, pp. 55-70, pl. 27-34; Fiorelli, Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 352-357; Nissen, Pomp. Studien, pp. 232-253; Overbeck-Mau, Pompeji, pp. 153-176.
The tribunals [[p. 145]]: it is evident from the language of Suetonius (Div. Aug. 44, solis virginibus Vestalibus locum in theatro separatim et contra praetoris tribunal dedit) that opposite the place set aside for the praetor, which was called tribunal, there was another likewise reserved. In our theatre the two platforms mentioned correspond exactly with this arrangement, and there is no other part of the structure to which the word tribunalia, in the inscription of the Holconii ([p. 148]), could properly be applied. We are safe therefore in calling the platforms tribunals.
Wall painting, showing theatre police seated in niches in front of the stage [[p. 146]]: found in the casa della fontana grande; described by Helbig, Wandgemälde, no. 1468; figured in Museo Borb., vol. 4, pl. 18, and in Wieseler, Theatergebäude und Denkmäler des Bühnenwesens bei den Griechen und Römern (Göttingen, 1851), pl. 11, 2. A similar figure sitting in a shallow niche has been found on a wall in the eighth region (VIII. II. 23); see Röm. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), p. 202, no. 12. On the need of police to keep order in Roman theatres, see the references given by Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverwaltung, vol. 3 (Edit. 2), pp. 541-542; but cf. Körting, Geschichte des griechischen und römischen Theaters (Paderborn, 1897), p. 367.
Place of stage machinery [[p. 147]]: Pollux, Onomast. IV. 128.
Inscriptions relating to Actius Anicetus [[p. 148]]: inscription found at Puteoli, C. I. L. X. 1946; graffiti, C. I. L. IV. 2155, and Index, p. 233, under Actius and Anicetus; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 5395.
Assemblies in the theatre [[p. 148]]: at Tarentum (282 B.C.), App. De rebus Samnit. VII. II; Dio Cass. Frag. XXIX. 5; at Pergamus, Plut. Sulla, 11. Cf. Muller, Bühnenalterthümer, pp. 73-75.