Note 193 — THE FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATRE, COMMONLY CALLED THE COLOSSEUM.
Reading edition
The following inscriptions, found upon the spot, agree with the construction, as is always the case when the true date can be ascertained. The first is of the time of Hadrian, A.D. 120, (No. 43 in chapter vii. of the work of Francesco Alvino, which contains the ancient inscriptions found upon the spot); the second (No. 48 of the same collection) appears to be of Septimius Severus and Pertinax, A.D. 192; the third in point of date (No. 16 in the collection) records restorations by Lampridius:—
XLIII. IMP. CÆS. T. ÆLIO HADRIANO AVG PATRI PATRIÆ SVBLEVATORI ORBIS RESTITVTORI OPE RVM PVBLICORVM INDVLGENTISSIMO OPTIMAQ. PRINCIPI CAMPANI OB INSIGNEM ERGA EOS BE NIGNITATEM D. D. XLVIII. IMP. CÆS. DIVI M. ANTONINI GERM. SARM. FIL. DIVI COMMODI FRATRI DIVI ANTONINI PII NEPOTI DIVI HADRIANI PRONEPOTI DIVI TRAIANI PARTHICI ABNEPOTI DIVI NERVAE ADNEPOTI SEPTIMIO SEVERO PIO PERTINACI ARABICO ADIABENICO P.P. PONT. MAX TRIB. POT. I̅I̅I̅I̅. IMP. VIII. COS II. PROC COLONIA CAPVA
XVI. POSTVMIO LAMPADIO V. C. ET INLVSTRI CON. CAMPANIAE RESTITVTORI PATRIAE ET REDINTEGRATORI OPERVM PVBLICORVM
By a singular coincidence, Lampadius was also the name of the Prefect who restored the Flavian amphitheatre in A.D. 445; but though the surname is the same, the prename is not, he was probably of the same family.