Theatre
Sillyon’s Theatre is oriented north-south in the south part of the Acropolis. Placed at a spot dominating the Pamphylian Plains and the Mediterranean, the Theatre has a magnificent panorama. Only 12 rows of seats and the western analemma wall have survived in good condition. The rest of the massive structure was destroyed by landslides through the history and slid downhill. Today, the details of the demolished part of the Theatre can be attested very easily. It is understood from the information provided by the locals that there was a landslide in 1968 and most of it collapsed then. In the city plan given in Lanckoroński’s work written in 1890, the monument is noted as intact then.
The Theatre was built using local limestone making use of the rocky ground. The monument rested on the hillside and its stage building had fallen down not leaving much clue. It must have had double cavea and a single diazoma. The cavea was cut by five stairways. In the upper part there is a walkway before the analemma wall. While the lower part of the analemma wall on the west was built with dressed stones, its upper part was built with polygonal and small blocks. We do not have clear data about the construction date of the Theatre, which was a small-scale monument as inferred from the extant rows of seats. However, that it rests on the hillside, as well as its location and architectural details, suggests that it was probably built in the Hellenistic period and remained in use during the Roman period.
Theatre