Burdur, Altınyayla, Yanık village

Lower Balboura theatre faces northeast from an altitude of 1,488 metres in the foothills of the peak. However, it is in a sheltered position protecting it from the north winds. As excavations have been conducted here, a few rows of seats and a few steps of the radial ways have been exposed. Moreover, the lower floor of the stage building of this theatre has survived. The dimensions of the stage building are 29 feet by 125 feet. The basement floor of the building is constructed with stone arches spaced at intervals of seven feet. The tiling of the stage of the somewhat large building is intact. The vaulted rooms of the lower floor and the passages between them are sound. The ruins of this stage building resemble those of the theatre of Alaşehir (Philadelphia). A major part of the city of Balboura was located close to this theatre on the foothills of the mountain. The two theatres face one another. As in the upper theatre, the rows of this single level theatre rise in 8 rows upwards from the orchestra at a gradient of 30 degrees, fitting around the large rocks protruding from the slope. The rows leave these rocks untouched, continuing upwards in a triangular shape from the left and from the right. There are up to 18 rows between the rocks. The cavea has the space for a total of 26 rows. Far from the theatre at the edge of a field below is a decorative feature from a coloured marble honorary seat with a backboard; a lion’s paw detail on a leg of the seat. The theatre has three radial ways and the radius of the orchestra is 48 feet. This shows us that the height of the stage building was around 63 feet.

Measurements taken on site at this theatre indicate a capacity of 1,600 people.