Pies: 3] 
half, or ninety-two feet eleven-twelfths, and to the top of the upper 
wall one hundred and forty-four palms and.an half, or one hundred 
fect and an half. This varies very confiderably from my} mea- 
furement, which is only feventy-one feet; but part of the upper 
wall is deftroyed. I conclude therefore that the dean miftakes 
when he takes his meafurement from the orcheftra, and that he 
really took it from the bottom of -the front buildings, to which it 
anfwers. 
As to what he afferts of the remains of the fuggeftum in 
the middle -of the otcheftra, I could not perceive them, but. if 
there were any they were probably thofe of the éywedy or tribu- 
nal*, : 
He is evidently miftaken when he afferts that there:are*four- 
teen benches appropriated to the knights; this is a ftriking circum- 
ftance in which the conftru@ion of this theatre difagrees with 
the rules for the Roman theatre. Thefe benches are here divided 
into two diftin@ claffes: in the firft divifion there are feven 
benches, to which an entrance is afforded immediately in ftrait 
corridors from the eaft and weft fides, a2, a2. The upper bench 
of thefe, as the dean obferves, is wider than the reft, being four 
y feet 
* Ey OPNNTT pe Kab n Oupirn, ete Bru th, cuca es TE Busos. Pollux, Lib. 4. Cap. 19- 
Sueton. in Claudio. Cap. 21.  Ludos dedicationis Pompejani Theatri, quod 
ambuftum reflituerat, e tribunali pofito in orcheftra commifit, cum prius apud fu- 
periores <edes fupplicaflet, perque mediam cayeam fedentibus ac filentibus cundtis 
defcendiflet.” 
