normally in the Corinthian order, often originally including many statues in niches. A siparium was stretched on the scaenae frons.

In smaller theatres it could support a permanent roof, enclosing the whole theatre, and in larger ones awnings over the whole or parts of the theatre, perhaps secured to masts rising above it, for which there is some evidence.

An inscription in the entablature above the lowest columns often

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