And further, that Domitian completed the building up to the clypea, that is, the top cornice at that time, when the upper storey was of wood.
[A.D. 92-96.] “Domitianus Imp. ... Amphitheatrum usque ad clypea.”
[50] See Plates [V.], [VI.], [XV.], [XVI.]
[51] Photos., Nos. 3136, 3137.
[52] Photos., No. 3204.
[53] This platform was, perhaps, constructed of a great number of timbers fastened together. Lucan has described such a platform with a tower on it. (Pharsal., lib. iv. 420, sqq.)
[54] Dionis Hist., lib. lxii. cap. 15.
[55] Ibid., lib. lxi. Nero, vi. c. 9 and 17.
[56] Ibid., lib. lxvi. c. 25.
[57] Ibid., lib. lxii. Nero, iii. c. 15, and 20, 22.