The Stadium At Perge In Southern Turkey. Though the present seating is Roman, the stadium was certainly laid out in Hellenistic times.
Such stadia, designed to accommodate the running and field events of a local athletics festival, are one of the hallmarks of the Greek
way of life which was carried into the newly conquered regions of the Hellenistic world.
Painted Animals In A Tomb At Marissa (Mareshah) in Jordan (second half of the third century B.C.), The creatures represented were all
native to north Africa or believed to be such; here we see an elephant and a rhinoceros, both identified by tiny labels. The larger letters
painted over the frieze refer to a subsequent burial.