Timeline for the Theatre at Priene, Turkey
350 BC
city of Priene refounded (Hellenistic)
332-330 BC
theatre built -packed earth orchestre, wooden skene, stone cavea (Hellenistic)
200 BC
seats for nobility (prohedria) added around orchestra (Hellenistic)
269-250 BC
wooden skene reconstructed in stone (Hellenistic)
250 BC
Rome begins to govern Priene
early 100s BC
proskenion built (Hellenistic)
mid-100s BC
- proskenion altered/enlarged, "royal box" built (Roman)
100s AD
skene altered, stage enlarged (Roman)
1673
- English merchants discover Priene ruines (Ottoman period)
1764-66
Excavations by London Society of Dillettanti (Ottoman period)
1811-12
Excavations by London Society of Dillettanti (Ottoman period)
1868-9
Excavations by London Society of Dillettanti (Ottoman period)
1895
Excavations begun by Berlin Museum/Carl Humann (German)
1896
Excavations taken over by Th. Weigand/H. Schrader (German)
1977-82
Excavations under Wolfgang Muller-Wiener (German)
1990-present
Excavations under Wolf Koenigs (German)
1992
German theatre reconstruction project begins
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