Pergamon Altar

The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) is a monumental construction built during the reign of king Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BCE on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor, modern day Turkey.

Overview

Foundation Remains

Gallery

Notes

• Initially, the Ottoman government wanted to share the finds (2/3 to Germany 1/3 to Turkey), but in negotiations which took place 1878/79, which were even influenced by Bismarck, an agreement was concluded which allocated all finds to the German Empire for a payment of 20,000 goldmarks. It helped that the Ottoman Empire was at that time weak on the domestic front and grateful for Bismarck's mediating role at the Congress of Berlin. See Kunze, Kästner: Antikensammlung II, p. 30; Schaller: Pergamonaltar, col. 211.
• Alexander Conze, quoted from Max Kunze, Volker Kästner: Antikensammlung II. Der Altar von Pergamon. Hellenistische und römische Architektur. Henschelverlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00436-9.

See Also

• Pergamon Theatre
• Seven Churches of the Apocalypse
• Temple of Dionysus
• Temple of Athena
• Notable Exhibitions at the Pergamon Museum

References

• Kahl, Brigitte. 2010. Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
• On the use of the altar and possible ways of sacrificing see Max Kunze: Der Pergamonaltar. Seine Geschichte, Entdeckung und Rekonstruktion. von Zabern, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-8053-1468-X.
• Dreyfus, Renée, and Ellen Schraudolph. 1996. Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze From the Great Altar. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
• Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Antikensammlung (ed.): Die Antikensammlung im Pergamonmuseum und in Charlottenburg. Also Antikensammlung Berlin, von Zabern, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-8053-1187-7.
• Wolfgang Radt: Pergamon. Geschichte und Bauten einer antiken Metropole, Primus, Darmstadt 1999.
• Pollitt, J.J., Art in the Hellenstic Age (Cambridge 1986).
• Queyrel, François, L'Autel de Pergame. Images et pouvoir en Grèce d'Asie. Antiqua vol. 9. Paris: Éditions A. et J. Picard, 2005. See Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.08.42.
• Ridgway, B.S. 2000. Hellenistic Sculpture II. The Styles of ca. 200-100 BC, (Madison, Wisconsin).
• Bernard Andreae: Datierung und Bedeutung des Telephosfrieses im Zusammenhang mit den übrigen Stiftungen der Ataliden von Pergamon, in: Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer (ed.): Der Pergamonaltar. Die neue Präsentation nach Restaurierung des Telephosfrieses, Wasmuth, Tübingen 1997.
• Stewart, A. 2000. "Pergamon Ara Marmorea Magna. On the Date, Reconstruction, and Functions of the Great Altar of Pergamon" in N. De Grummond and B.S. Ridgway, editors, From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context (Berkeley).
• Hoffmann, Herbert, "Antecedents of the Great Altar at Pergamon" The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 11.3 (October 1952.
• De Grummond, Nancy Thomson, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. 2000. 'From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Bilsel, Can. 2012. Antiquity On Display: Regimes of the Authentic In Berlin's Pergamon Museum. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pollitt, J. J. 2002. Art in the Hellenistic age. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo. 2000. Hellenistic sculpture. Vol. 2, The styles of ca. 200–100 B.C. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.
• Smith, R. R. 1991. Hellenistic sculpture: A handbook. World of Art. London and New York: Thames & Hudson.

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