It’s not unusual when reading about
Gümüşlük’s history to see a comment along the lines of: early visitors to the site reported the
presence of a stadium and theatre but neither survive today.
The man generally credited with
proposing that Gümüşlük was the possible site of Mausolus’ Myndos was Captain Francis Beaufort following his survey of the coast line in 1811/12.
In 1836 Beaufort, now a Rear Admiral
and British Hydrographer to the Navy, dispatched HMS Beacon under the command
of Lieutenant Commander Thomas Graves on a survey of the Mediterranean.
1n 1938 Lt Cdr Graves surveyed and
produced a chart of the Gümüşlük peninsular and included on it the position of
the archaeological remains visible at the time. As far as we are aware all 19th
century references to the stadium and theatre date back to naval chart produced
from Lt Cdr Graves’ survey.
A new page has been added that contains
a brief summary of Beaufort’s visit, Graves’ chart and comments by a few other
visitors in the 1800s
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