BERGAMA
HISTORYCAL PLACES
THE ZEUS ALTAR
It was situated about 25m. Down the lower terrace of the Athena temple. This place was about 69*77 m. Big and rose right in the center. Most probably four sides of the altar were open and the monument was seen easily from everywhere. This large and impor tant construction of the Pergamon Acropolis during the most successful times of the Kingdom, when the second Eumenes was King. The horseshoe shaped Pergamon Altar has close counterparts in the Menderes Magnesiasa and Prien. The altar is a monument that ha s combined the arts of architecture an sculpture in the best way. Here the reliefs are not in the second place.They are as important as the altar itself. Today only the base of the altar can be seen. All the architectural pieces and reliefs can be seen in the Berlin Museum
It was
situated about 25m. Down the lower terrace of the Athena temple. This place was about
69*77 m. Big and rose right in the center. Most probably four sides of the altar were open
and the monument was seen easily from everywhere. This large and impor tant construction
of the Pergamon Acropolis during the most successful times of the Kingdom, when the second
Eumenes was King. The horseshoe shaped Pergamon Altar has close counterparts in the
Menderes Magnesiasa and Prien. The altar is a monument that ha s combined the arts of
architecture an sculpture in the best way. Here the reliefs are not in the second
place.They are as important as the altar itself. Today only the base of the altar can be
seen. All the architectural pieces and reliefs can be seen in the Berlin Museum