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---Location:
Near modern Güllübahçe-Turunçlar, Turkey
Theatre Type:
Hellenistic Theatre with Roman renovations
Date of Construction:
332-330 BC (Hellenistic)
Architect:
Unknown
Renovation Dates:
early 2nd century BC (Hellenistic), mid-2nd century BC (Hellenistic), 2nd century AD (Roman)
Archive Locations:
- German Archaeological Institute, Berlin Museum
Excavations:
1673 by English merchants; 1764-66, 1811-12, and 1868-9 by the London Society of Dillettanti; 1895-present by Berlin Museum/German Archaeological Institute
Dimensions:
- Dimensions of Original Theatre:
- Theatron: 140 X 95 meters - 459 X 312 feet
- Orchestra: 18.65 X 10 meters - 61.2 X 32.8 feet
- Stage: 21 X 2.74 meters - 131 X 20 feet
- (approximate measurements based on plan view)
Seating Capacity:
5000-6500
Architectural Drawings:
- The horseshoe-shaped theatre at Priene represents one of the best-preserved and earliest forms of Hellenistic theatre constructions in Turkey. The city of Priene is located on the northern edge of the Meander River plain approximately thirty kilometers from the present day Turkish city of Kusadasi. The ancient city was once a flourishing port, but the Meander River, true to its name, isolated the city by depositing silt, thus producing the fertile farmland we see today. j More....
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