BALBURA
(Katara), ancient Lycia / Asia Minor, modern Turkey.
COORDENATES: 36º57’14.59’’N
// 29º34’56.73’’E
TIPOLOGY: Greek
theatre. Urban.
DATE: Mid
– II B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS:
CAPACITY: 1.800
spectators.
CAVEA: facing
south. 36 m. diameter, exceeeds semicircle. Maenianum:
16 rows of seat are visible on 3 cunei.
ORCHESTRA: 11
m. diameter.
STAGE
BUILDING: It´s the best preserved a complete wall built on
slope of polygonal rusticated masonry.
LOCATION: Balbura
has two theatres, these is called “upper theatre” and it´s located on south
slope of north hill, 6 klm. south-east from Altinyayla, 25 klm. south from Gölishar
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; “Lycian
Turkey”. London, Ernst Benn, 1978. // Freely, John; “The Western Mediterranean coast of Turkey”.
Istanbul, Matbaacilik
ve Yayincilik A.S., 1997.
OUT OF PRINT: These
is one of these theatres that you spent time to find it. In my first travel to
Lycia, I was not able to find it, I only had very poor references in Bean´s
book, it was a day in which I lived with the snow on road and to take
references was very difficult, I did not have a gps either. Anyway I found it
in my second travel, it was difficult but too much exciting... the bad new was
that I did not have references to look for the second one theatre, I tried to recognize
the land was it was not possible... maybe, I hope, there will be a third time,
another travel to Lycia, and I will try it again, of course.
