_Excavation_ (October 25, 1766, to April 7, 1769, and December 10,
1791, to February 20, 1794): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt.
1, pp. 195-228, pt. 2, pp. 46-48, 51, 52, 54, 151-153, pt. 3, p. 273.
_Remains, identification, restoration_: MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei,
vol. 3, pp. 12-15, pl. 2-6; GELL, Pompeiana (Edit. of 1852), p. 184;
GARRUCCI, Il Ludus Gladiatorius, ovvero Convitti dei Gladiatori, in
his Questioni Pompeiane (Naples, 1853), pp. 1-8; NISSEN, Pomp.
Studien, pp. 253-262. The suggestion has lately been made that the
colonnade may have been designed as the Gymnasium of pre-Roman Pompeii
(PETERSEN, Ueber die sogen. Gladiatorenkaserne in Pompeji, Roem.
Mitth., vol. 14 (1899), pp. 103-104).
_Graffiti_: C. I. L. IV. pp. 157-159.
_Exhibitions of gladiators_ [p. 161]: C. I. L. X. 1074, and references
to Chap. XXX.
_Paintings_ [pp. 161-162]: HELBIG, Wandegemaelde, nos. 322, 1512.