Cyrrhus 1

This first volume of the new series titled Cyrrhus, is dedicated to the excavations of the French mission, particularly to the work done on the theater between 1952 and 1993. The mission, led by Edmond Frézouls, focused its excavation work on the theater, which was dated to the second half of the second century AD by the excavator himself.
This publication is divided into three chapters:
The introduction presents the entire work of the mission in a chronological order. The next two chapters are written by Edmond Frézouls on the history of Cyrrhus and Northern Syria as well as the history of the theater. The third and last chapter discusses the recent researches done by the Lebanese-Syrian mission of Cyrrhus on the theater while referencing the old documentation and the archaeological material found by the previous (older) mission. New researches and observations are also included in this volume which will be the starting point for a new publication that will encompass the new data on the theater and on the project as a whole.
The written archives of the previous excavations that were used in the production of this volume were taken from the administrative documentation of DGAMS and the Ifpo. The personal archives of Edmond Frézouls were also used. Unless otherwise stated, the graphs, the illustrations and the photographies in the entire volume are taken from the archives of the French mission (i.e. personal archives of Edmond Frézouls as well as documents preserved at the IRAA).

ملخص

خصص هذا المجلد الأول، من سلسلة جديدة تحمل عنوان قورش، لأعمال التنقيب الخاصة بالبعثة الفرنسية، وخاصةً، للأعمال التي جرت في المسرح ما بين عام 1952 و 1993. والواقع ان البعثة، التي قادها إدمون فريزولس، إهتمت بالتحديد في الكشف على مبنى المسرح، المؤرخ من قبل المنقب في أواخر منتصف القرن الثاني ميلادي.