The workforce consisted of skilled Roman professionals and unskilled Roman citizenry or war slaves supposed to be mainly Jews however, there is rarely any proof that Jewish prisoners of war were mobilized to form the unskilled labor that teamed up with expert Roman artisans. Further remodeling were done under Emperor Domitian who built the underground (hypogeum) tunnels and expanded the seating capacity by introducing a gallery at the top. His successor, Emperor Titus, completed the forth story in 80 AD. Its construction began in 72 AD during the reign of Emperor Vespasian and, by the time of his death in 79, it was built to the third story. The Flavian Amphitheatre, so called because it was erected during the reign of the Flavian emperors, is located between the Caelian Esquiline and the Palatine Hills of Regio II Isis et Serapis in Rome, Italy. The word ‘amphitheater’ means ‘double stage’. In the Roman times, the Colosseum was called Flavian Amphitheater.
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