The Pergamon Altar

Here are some images of the Great Frieze of the Pergamon Altar, taken in the Pergamon Museum (Berlin) with a hand-held camera without artificial light. Consequently, many of the following images are fuzzy. However, given the supreme importance of this Altar for the history of Roman art (as well as in its own right, of course), all are given. The negatives were first written to a laserdisk, with vertical images "laid down" on their sides so as to capture the largest area possible. They appear here just as they came off the laserdisk. The worst will be weeded out when I have a moment...

You might wish to investigate other collections of Pergamon material on this server, for example via database access,

or by looking at my book on The Greek & Roman Cities of Western Turkey, which can also be searched. This collection of images will - when time permits - form the basis for a tutorial presentation of the Altar (with all the most dodgy frames weeded out), similar in type to that devoted to The "Palace" of Diocletian at Split.

So please bear with me whilst I amass sufficient funds to develop my activities, and to turn these random images into a proper presentation!

  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2
  3. Part 3
  4. Part 4
  5. Part 5
  6. Part 6
  7. Part 7
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