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Pax Romana Art
The Colosseum Hypogeum
The Colosseum, Rome · late 1st century AD
1.843 kr2.636 kr
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- Printed in the USA. Made to order and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
- Magnetic wooden hanger. Posters come with a pine hanger; the magnets hold the print.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
Details & specs
Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 12x16″ · 18x24″ · 24x32″ · 30x40″
- Orientation: Vertical
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Architectural print
- Era: Timeless
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Made to order and printed and framed in the USA. Produced in 1–2 business days, delivered 2–5 business days after that — 3–7 business days door to door. Free US shipping, tracked.
Damaged, defective or the wrong item? Email a photo within 7 days of delivery and we send a free replacement or a full refund. Because every piece is made to order, change-of-mind returns are not accepted.
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The Colosseum HypogeumFramed print · Black · 24x32″
1.843 kr
2.636 krSave 793 kr
The Colosseum, Rome · late 1st century AD
The Machinery Beneath the Sand
The Colosseum, properly the Flavian Amphitheater, was begun by the emperor Vespasian around AD 70 and opened by his son Titus in AD 80, with games that Cassius Dio says lasted a hundred days. Dio also reports shows on water in those early years. The underground hypogeum is generally credited to the next emperor, Domitian, and most scholars think the water shows came before it was built.
The hypogeum was a grid of corridors and chambers on two levels, roofed by the wooden floor of the arena, which was covered in sand. Archaeologists of the German Archaeological Institute who studied its walls in the 1990s found traces of some two dozen lifts, worked by capstans that teams of men turned by hand. A lift could raise a caged animal straight up to a trapdoor, so that a wolf or a lion seemed to appear from nowhere. In 2015 a working replica was built and lowered into the Colosseum.
The piece
The print looks down one long corridor. Shafts of light drop through the slats overhead and lie in pale bars across the dirt floor. Lift cages and winding drums frame the near edges, the arches repeat into the distance, and at the end a single figure stands where the light is brightest: one stagehand in a building made for thousands.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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