The amphitheater was over 160 feet high, roughly like a 12-15 storey building, with eighty entrances. Its 615 ft x 150 ft vast ellipse covering 6 acres at the base housed multitiered seating for upwards of 50,000 screaming spectators. Below the wooden floors a vast rabbit warren of rooms and passageways provided accomodation for man and beast. An intricate set of pulleys, elevators and gangplanks allowed animals to seemingly materialize out of nowhere into the arena.