Rather than building walls around the lake, the engineers designed the foundation to sit on the clay bed of the lake, nearly 25' below the ground level with drains built under the entire circumference of the foundation, as well as drains throughout the entire area inside the Colosseum spaced every 12'. ... Foundation engineering and planning for the Colosseum was a very big issue, mostly because of the material that it sits on, clay, and the fact the lake was naturally spring fed and on the site. ...

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VOCABULARY Apadana: an audience hall in a Persian palace Capital: the top element of a column Cuneiform: a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrow-head shape Cylinder seal: a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image Facade: the front of a building Ground plan: the map of a floor of a building Hierarchy of scale: a system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art Lamassu: a colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art Negative space: empty space around ...

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The floor achieved its ruined effect through the marble-like painted linoleum and the hay spread all throughout the stage. ... The quality of the material made them look like dainty clay statues who can execute complicated motions and movements. ...

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