BERGAMA
ASKLEPİON ...ACROPOLİS...LIBRARY...THEATRE...AGORA...ARSENAL...ZEUS MUSEUM..GOLD MINEATHENA TEMPLE Athena Temple that was erected on the terrace of the theatre, is an erection on 6*10 columned Dore, Merely certain items of the groundwork of the temple were stored partially to 120 m. height. Some parts of the temple's columns and architrav are still i n Berlin Museum. It is a settled custom of the Western Anatolian that the most important temple of the city belongs to Goddess Athena is a reflection of Izmir, Milet, Erythrai, Foça, Assos's tradition. Athena ordered 2 staged stoas to be built along the temple's Eastern and Northern sides after the victorieous wars against the second Eumenes Seleukos, Galats and Macedonians. These were errected with Hellenistic style. |
THE LIBRARY The attached errection that in the North of Athena sanctified region are ruins of the famous Pergamon Library. The library which was excessed from the top floor of the galery before belongs to the 2nd Eumenes Era and it has a big, 13.53*15.35 dimensional reading room. The Athena sculpture that was 3.50 meters height situated in this library which was furnished with wooden-ledges. This sculpture is preserved in the Berlin Museum today. The great rival of the library which affluenced in the 2nd Eumenes Era was the library of Iskenderiye. The Pergamons discovered parshomen as a result of the prevention of the exportation of papirus by Egyptians. This the first parshomen of the world was used in Pergamon. Antonius, gifted the library that had 200.000 books to Cleopatra, however this prosperous treasure doomed with the burning of the Iskenderiye Library. |
THE THEATRE
THE DIONYSUS TEMPLE superior |
THE AGORA
superior In the middle of the Asklepios area which is circumscribed on three sides, there is an 80 m. Long passage that stretches from teh sacred fountain to the curing building. From this passage one can >pass to the circular construction of medical cures. The so und of the water and the inspirations in the passage helped the sick people get better. There are 6 apsids in the curing building. THE SERAPYS TEMPLE |
THE BERGAMA MUSEUM The Archaeological Museum and Ethnographical Museum was first found in todays Peoples Education center in 1924 by Osman Bayatly. Later the construction of todays modern building began in 1933 and with the help of the German Archeological Institute it was completed in 1936. In the museum there are 10516 works of art. Of these 5350 are archaeologic, 1936 are ethnographic and 3201 are coins. There are also 24 court registrations and 5 seals. The archaeologic works belong to the Archaic, Classic, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzanti an periods. The Ethnographic works are made of materials belonging to the Ottoman period and Bergama region stells and sycopages are displayed in the outer yard of the museum. In the inner yard architectural pieces in chronological order (architravs, colu mns and column capitals) , low reliefs, colossal sculptures and stone inscriptions are displayed. In the first archaeologic salon: Bronze Age Cremics (yortan), archaic, classic (Pitane ceramics), Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantian (Pergamon, Greneum, Myrine ce ramics) marble statuettes and coins are displayed. In the second archaeologic salon: Roman period glass objects, ceramic objects, portraits, mozaik floors with Medusas picture and architectural decoration works are displayed. In the ethnographic salon:Weawing looms of the 18th and 20th century and sp ecific examples of the peoples culture are displayed. In the list museums in Izmir and its provinces the Bergama Museum attracts the most tourists after Ephesus Museum.
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