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… extension continued over the inner wall to the outer wall, which then must have been considerably higher. (see reconstr. of the longitudinal section). The inner wall has however probably not much been altered or destroyed. It has essentially been a substruction wall intended to form both a horizontal and vertical support for the seating itself and above all for their underlying bedding of concrete. The inner "surrounding wall" has in ancient times always nowhere come to light under the fact that the outer wall at the same time formed the theatre's outward facade. Presumably this wall on the higher parts had architectural decoration and for that very reason was later destroyed down to the present level. Remains of this decoration have however not been found.
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