Odeion

The Odeion was the southernmost structure of the upper city following this layout and orientation.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Hadrianic Nymphaeum Report 2 2003

The first activity during the fourth week of excavations in the Odeion was the completion of the excavation of the staircase between Corridors 1 and 2.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Odeion Report 4 2003

They carried out a number of ambitious projects, such as the excavation of the Acropolis, the restoration of the Parthenon, and excavations of the Theater of Dionysos, the Odeion of Herodes Atticus, and the Tower of the Winds, all in Athens.

Archaeological Society at Athens « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2009

Preference given to Sagalasos under Hadrian also explains the colossal size of structures such as the Odeion (2,000 seats?), the Baths, and the Theater (9,000 seats), the presence of four monumental nymphaea (fountains), two agoras, and so many other impressive monuments, much too large and much too numerous for a city with certainly fewer than 5,000 urban dwellers.

Hadrian at Sagalassos 2007

From there, I went to the South Slope and saw the The Odeion of Herodes Atticus, Stoa of Attalos and the Temple of Hephaestus before getting lunch.

Greece! Andrew 2006

From there, I went to the South Slope and saw the The Odeion of Herodes Atticus, Stoa of Attalos and the Temple of Hephaestus before getting lunch.

Archive 2006-04-01 Andrew 2006

As is now becoming clear from excavation, the Odeion was repaired in late antiquity, and so the use of its seats for building elsewhere might indicate repair work designed to eliminate damaged elements rather than serious spoliation, a phenomenon observed at Aphrodisias for the fourth century A.D.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 15 2003

Furthermore the Odeion and Bouleuterion provided spoils for buildings some distance away from their place of origin.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 15 2003

It also means that all its building components should be found in the position of their collapse, despite the fact that some of the blocks slid down, along the slope separating the Macellum from the Odeion.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Macellum Report 4 2003

This refurbishment included the construction of the 50-meter long west portico, reconstruction of the Apollo Klarios temple, inaugurated in A.D. 102-103, the construction of the Odeion on a terrace north of the square, and most likely also that of the first nymphaeum on the square's north.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora 2003