Abstract
Baetica’s Roman amphitheatres have not been examined in depth; we know a small sample of those which really existed. Of the five known, the Berja’s one belongs to a small village; that of Carmona can be a military amphitheater, and the three biggest, Italica, Ecija and Cordoba, are large buildings with similar characteristics in the design and built in a short time span. They are based on a four-point oval with a Pythagorean triangle relation between the focal points. The long axis focal points are 120 Roman feet away while the focal points in the short axis are the arena width, 160 Roman feet. The number of bays in the facade is the result of multiplying the radius, the semiaxes average, by 40 and dividing all by the cavea width, 40R/C. This can be applied to most of the great imperial amphitheatres except the Colosseum and Capua whose arches are obtained from 50R/C. The facade height, from the arena level, was 44/7 by the intercolumniation width.
Highlights
Baetica's Roman amphitheatres have not been examined in depth
the Berja's one belongs to a small village
They are based on a four-point oval with a Pythagorean triangle relation
Summary
Los anfiteatros romanos de la Bética no han sido suficientemente estudiados, y los que conocemos parecen ser una muestra escasa de los que realmente debió haber. El de Berja pertenece a un pequeño núcleo urbano, el de Carmona puede ser un anfiteatro militar y los tres mayores, los de Itálica, Écija y Córdoba, son grandes edificios con características muy similares en el diseño y construidos en un corto espacio temporal. El número de arcos de fachada se obtiene de multiplicar por 40 la media de los semiejes y dividirlo todo por el ancho de la cávea, 40R/C, sistema aplicable a la mayor parte de los grandes anfiteatros imperiales salvo el Coliseo y Capua cuyos arcos se obtienen a partir de 50R/C; la altura desde la cota de la arena es 44/7 veces el intercolumnio
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