Relief, Theatre, Perga, Antalya, Turkey

Relief of the life of Dionysus, on the podium of the skene of the theatre, Greco-Roman, in Perga, an ancient Pamphylian city ruled by the Persians, Greeks and Romans, in Antalya, Turkey. The theatre seats 15,000 with a cavea divided by a diazoma. The auditorium was built c. 120 AD and the skene building in the 2nd century AD, altered in the 3rd, with many friezes and statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Relief of the life of Dionysus, on the podium of the skene of the theatre, Greco-Roman, in Perga, an ancient Pamphylian city ruled by the Persians, Greeks and Romans, in Antalya, Turkey. The theatre seats 15,000 with a cavea divided by a diazoma. The auditorium was built c. 120 AD and the skene building in the 2nd century AD, altered in the 3rd, with many friezes and statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen