Selected Recent Archaeological Visits:

Side and Aspendos (Southern Turkey), Oct 2011:

NB  This page is being revised; some pictures have been removed

Aqueduct feeding Nymphaeum, outside North Gate                Colonnaded street from the North Gate to the sea

Colonnaded shopfronts looking west from Nymphaeum     View from Peristyle House across Agora to Theatre

(Early Byzantine Hospital)                                                           ( Vespasian's Monument outside Inner Gate and Arch)

( Episcopal Palace and Library from East Gate)

   Temple of Apollo by the sea, from outer wall                                                                                                                                     of the Basilica

      (2ndC Basilica with 5thC Church inside it (on the left)         Outside Temple of Athena, overlooking T of Apollo

Side's Roman Theatre, with East Gate and sea beyond       Nymphaeum with re-erected columns and capitals

Town Bath (now Museum): plunge pool, niches & relics         One of two 4thC marble Sarcophagi in the Museum

   (Main Bath Hall reconstructed, with stele etc.)          Funerary monument: Lion with kill

   (Theatre arches from colonnaded street)                               Agora and Rotunda with East Gate beyond  

Episcopal Palace and Town Walls from Necropolis                                            (Side street with 3-storey Town House)

(See `Home and Family` page for more of Side)

Aspendos:

Theatre facade and dignitaries' entrance                            Original seating in auditorium, and decorated Orchestra

                                                                         Road to City Gate, paved & drained        Close up of Basilica from Agora

                                      Remains of arcaded shops in Agora        Basilica and Agora from Theatre Hill     ( Nearby Suljet (Medieval) bridge)

(See `Home and Family` page for overview of Aspendos Theatre)