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Roman Theatre: Letters of Prefect Pliny and Emperor Trajan
August 2, 20261 min readIznik Expedition Team
Architectural secrets of the Iznik Roman Theater, which was the subject of debate with its expenses in ancient correspondence.
Pliny the Younger, who was the governor of Bithynia in the 2nd century AD, describes the construction of the theater in detail in his letters to Emperor Trajan.
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Theater Rising on Vaults
It is one of the rare theater buildings in Anatolia that does not lean on a sloping mountain slope, but is raised on a flat area with giant vaults.
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