Detail of a pier and vault on the exterior of the Colosseum.
The irregular sizes of the blocks employed to construct the awkwardly shaped spandrels of the archway can be seen here; the block inserted into the corner of the spandrel, which lies behind the voussoirs themselves, finds an exact parallel on the slightly later Arch of Titus.
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