THE CUIRASSED STATUE OF HADRIAN AT ANKYRA THEATRE

The excavations took place at the Ankyra Roman Theater in 1980 s revealed number of sculptural artifacts. Almost all of those aforementioned fragments were found in the nine cells which were connected to each other by window shaped doors in the Theater Hyposkene section. Among the sculptural pieces, fragment of a portrait with forehead and upper parts of hair, in addition to other fragments of the statue, demonstrates that there was a cuirassed statue of Emperor Hadrian on the Scene of the Ankyra Theater. However, considering the details of craftsmanship of the statue indicates that a change in the Scene was planned in Late Hadrian Period and the completion of the arrangement might be finished just before or even shortly after to his death.