Hamilton, William John: Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia: with some account of their antiquities and geology ; in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1842)

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scena and proscenium. The wings of the cavea have also
disappeared, leaving only about sixty feet of the walls of
the scena, half the whole length, still standing, nearly twenty
feet high. At the north-west end is a large oblong apart-
ment, thirty-three feet by twelve, with two doorways, one
of which opens into the proscenium or pulpitum, while
the other leads into a central space, where an opening
eighteen feet wide appears to have existed between the
buildings which form the two extremities of the scena.
Many fragments of sculptured friezes, architraves, and cor-
nices, lie scattered about on all sides, and at a little distance
off a very well-executed bas relief half-buried in the ground,
which we cleared out, after sending to the village for a
mattock. It seems to represent a Titan, as seen in the
following sketch.

No. 6.

[Bos relief at Ahat Kieui.']

The summit of the hill above the theatre was covered
with the ruins of other buildings; but, with few exceptions,