Theater at Aspendos

Theater at Aspendos

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Zeno

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Single Built Works

Turkey (nation)

Belkis (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

amphitheaters (built works)

scaenae

View of the skene at the Theater at Aspendos (now Belkis), Turkey. "The skene, which is as high as the cavea, is made of regular blocks of conglomerate, except for window and door frames in limestone. The scaenae frons has two levels, each with twenty free-standing columns arranged in squares of four around niches for statuary. The columns of the lower level are Ionic, while those of the upper level are Corinthian. Five doors open from the scaenae frons onto the stage. The central door, the porta reggia, is the largest; the two doors on either side of the porta reggia are the smaller porta hospitales. At the top of the second level the columns support a triangular pediment, at the center of which is a frieze of Dionysus with scrolls of flowers. Only those parts of the scaenae frons that were attached to the skene wall have been preserved. A wooden roof over the stage sloped backwards towards the skene wall and served to improve acoustics and provide protection from the elements,"--Department of Theatre, Whitman College website.

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