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}} The Roman Theatre at Palmyra ((アラビア語:المسرح الروماني بتدمر)) is a Roman theatre in ancient Palmyra in the Syrian Desert. The unfinished theatre dates back to the second-century CE Severan period.〔Sear, 2006, p. 21.〕 The theatre's remains have since been restored and it serves as a venue for the annual Palmyra festival. ==Overview== The second-century CE theatre was built in the center of a semicircular colonnaded piazza which opens up to the South Gate of Palmyra.〔Ball, 2000, p. 296.〕 The piazza was located to the south-west of the main colonnaded street. The unfinished ''cavea'' is in diameter and consists only of an ''ima cavea'', the lowest section of the ''cavea'', directly surrounding the ''orchestra''.〔 The ''ima cavea'' is organized into eleven ''cunei'' of twelve rows each〔 and faces north-northeast towards the cardo maximus.〔Finlayson, 2012, p. 312.〕 The theatre's ''aditus maximus'', its main entrance, is in width, and leads to a stone-paved orchestra with a diameter of . The orchestra is bounded by a circular wall with a diameter of .〔 The ''proscenium'' wall is decorated with ten curved and nine rectangular niches placed alternately.〔Sear, 2006, p. 321.〕 The stage measures and is accessed by two staircases.〔 The ''scaenae frons'' had five doors:〔Sear, 2006, p. 108.〕 the main entrance, or ''regia'', built into a broad curved niche; two guest doors on either side of the ''regia'', or ''hospitalis'', built into shallow rectangular niches; and two extra doors, at either end of the stage.〔 Emperor Nero is known to have placed his statue in the niche of the regia of the theatre at Palmyra.〔Kernodle, 1989, p. 127.〕 The columns at the stage are decorated in the Corinthian order.〔Sear, 2006, p. 322.〕 In the 1950s the theatre was cleared from the sand and subsequently underwent restoration works.〔Carter; Dunston; Thomas, 2008, p. 208.〕 As of May 2015, the ISIS (Islamic State) had taken full control of Palmyra. In early July, 2015 it released a graphic video showing 25 teenage members of that group executing by shooting in the head a similar number of adult male captives dressed in dark fatigues and kneeling in front of them on the Palmyra theater's stage area.〔Hutcherson, Kimberly ("ISIS video shows execution of 25 men in ruins of Syria amphitheater" ) CNN, July 4, 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Theatre at Palmyra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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