On the back of the stage there were rooms that were used by the actors, with a peristyle with gardens and a small chapel for the imperial cult. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Figure 1b. Detail of fresco showing mask The hypothesis that part of the structure of the scene depicted in the fresco seems closely to match parts of the extant physical remains of the Large Theatre at Pompeii was first put forward by Von Cube in see also Bieber, It should be coordinated with the circular geometry of the orchestra and the cavea, but without tying it to any particular system of the radiating staircases between the cunei.
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