The Theater at Stobi: Results of the Joint US-Yugoslav Archaeological Investigations, 1970-1981 by Elizabeth R. Gebhard ISBN 9781803278414, 9781803278421, 1803278412, 1803278420 instant download

The Theater at Stobi: Results of the Joint US-Yugoslav Archaeological Investigations, 1970-1981 by Elizabeth R. Gebhard ISBN 9781803278414, 9781803278421, 1803278412, 1803278420 instant download

The well-preserved marble theater that Balduin Saria uncovered in 1924 at Stobi was thought for many years to be the only theater in the city. 
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Following Saria’s initial campaign, the remainder of the cavea, orchestra, and scene-building, but not the parodoi, were uncovered to the present ground level by Saržo Saržovski (c. 1965-1969). From 1970 to 1981, as a member of the joint Yugoslav and American excavation project directed by Djordje Mano-Zisi and James Wiseman, Elizabeth Gebhard opened a series of deep trenches to explore the history of activity in the building. Unexpectedly and near the end of the excavations, remains of an earlier scene-building were uncovered. They revealed a predecessor with a different plan and built at a lower elevation; much of it was destroyed or incorporated into the later building. 
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The initial construction of the theater belongs to the end of the first or beginning of the second century AD; it was completed in the middle of the century. After what appears to have been a major earthquake, placed about 300 by associated deposits, the cavea and scene-building were repaired and remodeled, and the orchestra was enclosed as a permanent arena.