Pergamon Altar
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- altar
- Named after
- Pergamon
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Bergama
- Movement
- Hellenistic art
- Material used
- marble
- Collection
- Antikensammlung Berlin
- Location
- Pergamon Museum
- Official website
- www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/antikensammlung/sammeln-forschen/3d-modell-des-pergamonaltars
- Image
- Berlin - Pergamonmuseum - Altar 02.jpg
- Width
- 34.29
- Length
- 36.44
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- inventory number
- Pe. 1
- time period
- classical antiquity
- culture
- Hellenistic period
- location of discovery
- Pergamon
- located in/on physical feature
- Aegean Region
- discoverer or inventor
- Carl Humann
- Commons category
- Pergamon Altar
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Encyclopedic overview
The reconstructed Pergamon Altar in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin Side view Carl Humann's 1881 plan of the Pergamon acropolis
The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II of the Pergamon Empire in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It was described as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by three known classical lists.
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