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by a portico of ten feet fix inches in width, communicating, as the 
Dean obferves, by doors, 27, 47, from without, and oppofite to 
thofe which give admiffion to the upper benches of this clafs. 
There is no entrance to this upper clafs of feats but by the prin- 
cipal and upper portico, or rather corridor, except one, f, which 
communicates by a narrow paflage, a 8, from the weft fide under 
the corridor: all the reft are by regular doors from the corridor. 
This entrance feems to be made for the convenience of the 
people coming from the weftward, as the declivity of the hill pre- 
vented a communication with this corridor. It is brought under 
the corridor, and communicates at the fixth bench from the top 
at f This corridor ferves no other purpofe but for entrance 
being only ten feet fix inches wide, and has eight doors, thofe on 
each fide the centre being clofe to the wall of the middle loggia. It 
is nine feet three inches in heighth, upon the top of which is placed 
the fumma cavea, confifting of four benches: the two centre ones 
of the fame width of thofe below, the loweft four feet, and the 
uppermoft contiguous to the wall five feet fix inches; to which 
uppermoft bench fmall ftairs e, e, e, communicate from the outfide 
of the theatre. So that it is evident that each feparate order of citi- 
zens gained admiffion at the top of thofe benches appropriated to 
their order, and that, befides the places adjoining the orcheftra, there 
were four feparate claffes of benches, being one more than appears 
to have been ufual in the conftru€tion of Roman theatres, which 
confifted only of ima, media, and fumma cavea*. 
ANOTHER 
* The divifion of this theatre feems to correfpond to the Beayrixer and EQnCixor of 
the Greeks. See Pollux. 
