古代都市メッセネの劇場のスカエナエ・フロンスにおける建築装飾の様式分析および建設年代

抄録

The scaenae frons, the facade of the Roman scene building of the Theater at Messene has been dated to between the middle of the 2^nd century and the 3^rd century A.D. by the excavator from uncertain evidences. The present paper demonstrates based on a stylistic analysis of the architectural ornamentation that the scaenae frons of the Messenian Theater dates not to the middle of the 2^nd century but to the second half of the 1^st century A.D. In addition, based on the same analysis, it is confirmed that the Roman theater of Messene was influenced not by the west including the city of Rome but rather by Asia Minor. The new chronology implies that the Roman construction boom of Messene belong to the second half of the 1^st century A.D.