SIDE
(Side), ancient Pamphylia / Asia Minor, modern Turkey.
COORDENATES: 36º46’04.92’’N
// 31º23’26.32E
TIPOLOGY: Roman
theatre. Urban.
DATE: Last
II A.D.
TRANSFORMATIONS: It
may probably have been an earlier Greek theatre. In III A.D. it was transformed
in amphitheatre.
CAPACITY: 10.000spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
north-east. 120 m. diameter. Bilt against slope, although summa cavea have 2 levels of substructures. 23 radial barrel-vaults
appear on façade. Maenianum: Ima cavea
with 30 rows of seats in 11 cunei. Summa
cavea with 25 rows in 24 cunei.
ORCHESTRA: 29
m. diameter, surrounded by podium.
STAGE
BUILDING: Pulpitum have
trapezoidal shape. Scaenae frons was
rectilinear, with 5 doors; 2 storey for columnatio.
Postscaenium with 9 rooms. Podium of
scaenae frons with relief sculptures.
LOCATION: Side
is 65 klm. east from Antalya.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Yilmaz, Yasar; “Anadolu
Antik Tiyatrolari”. Istanbul, Yem Yanin, 2010 // 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. // Bean, George; “Turkey´s southern shore”. London,
Ernest Benn Limited, 1968.
OUT OF PRINT: In
Side ancient theatre I played jigsaw... you only have to look at the scattered relief
sculpture remains of the podium and let the mind to fly.
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