COORDINATES: 36º19’55.09’’N
// 29º17’23.87’’E
TIPOLOGY: Greek
theatre. Not urban. DATE: First half of II B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS: Rebuilt in II A.D.
CAPACITY: 5.700 spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
north-west. Built in hollow. 79 m. diameter, cavea exceeds semicircle. Maenianum:
Ima cavea with 16 rows of seats in 12 cunei,
top rows with continuous back; Summa
cavea with 17 rows in 20 cunei. Frieze
with bearbead heads of Dionysos in east doorway arched.
ORCHESTRA: It
was surrounded by podium. Not excavated.
STAGE
BUILDING: Proscaenium with
Doric half-columns; Scaenae frons had
two-storey columnatio.
LOCATION: Theatre
is part of Xanthian sanctuary of Letoon, the sanctuary is in modern Kumluova, 4
klm. south-west from Kinik, 70 klm. south from Fethiye.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Yilmaz, Yasar; “Anadolu
Antik Tiyatrolari”. Istanbul, Yem Yanin, 2010. // Bean, George; “Lycian Turkey”. London, Ernst Benn,
1978. // Freely, John; “The Western
Mediterranean coast of Turkey”. Istanbul, Matbaacilik ve Yayincilik A.S.,
1997. // Sear, Frank; “Roman theatres: an
architectural study”. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina
Pisani Sartorio (eds); “Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio
rappresentato”. Rome: SEAT, 1995.
“If it had happened short or long time ago
I do not know
if we did this trip
or just seems to me
I do not know”
-Nâzim Hikmet-
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