Anatolian Civilizations and Historical Sites - TEDA

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The Myra Theater dates back to the Roman Age.
background to the reclining man. Higher up in the eastern group is a
tomb with a pediment showing a lion savaging a bull; in the porch
inside is a scene, including eight figures, somewhat similar to that on
the Painted Tomb.
The Theater: The theater is large, some 115 m. in diameter, and of
the Roman type. The vertical rock-face could not be utilized for the
slope of the cavea, which is accordingly wholly built up. The building
has recently been cleared and its appearance much improved; the
general state of preservation is good. The cavea has a single diazoma
with 29 rows of seats below it and six above, with fourteen stairways;
it is surrounded by two concentric vaulted galleries, of which the outer
gallery was in two stories. In the west gallery, on the wall between the
two corridors, is an inscription reading 'place of the huckster Gelasius';
we may imagine him at his stall purveying the ancient equivalent of