Hierapolis - Theater

On a slope some 300m/330yds east of the spring in Hierapolis a little higher than the Temple of Apollo stands the theater. This well-preserved building has a facade over 100m/130yds long. The auditorium, entered by two broad vaulted passages, contained an Imperial box, two tiers of seating each with 26 rows separated halfway up by a gangway and was divided into sections by eight stairways. An Dionysos relief has been returned to its original position between the doors. The orchestra and two-story stage building which had five doors was a mass of rubble consisting of fragments and reliefs but it is undergoing restoration. The theater was built in the reign of Septimius Severus ca. 200 B.C.