Abstract
Nîmes amphitheatre was built at the end of the first century on the city's periphery. With an orientation similar to the neighbouring districts it is besides apparently to be connected with Nîmes civic and religious centre. The shaping of its façade evinces the builders' attachment to already ancient principles : the receding entablatures were developped according to a pattern put to the test on various honorary arches at the beginning of the first century ; the bulls' protomai that support the entablature on the northern axis are reminiscent of Augustus' gate. Such characteristics evince an archaistic taste for Augustan architecture.
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