Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Pergamon Acropolis [site]
Image View:
The Trajaneum: the Temple of Trajan, the re-constructed pediment, detail at the corner (built for the Emperor Trajan and completed in 125 CE)
Creator:
unknown (Greek (ancient))
Location:
site: Bergama, Aegean Region, Turkey
Location Note:
Province of Izmir Ili
Date:
ca. 323 BCE-300 CE (inclusive)
Cultural Context:
Greek (ancient)
Style Period:
Hellenistic; Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
excavation (site)
Classification:
architecture
Material:
marble; stone
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Subjects:
Roman Empire; pediment
Description:
Under Persian rule 5th cen. BC; prosperous Hellenistic city during rule of Eumenes I & Attalids (282-133 BC); bequeathed by Attalus III to Rome 133 BC; to Byzantines after fall of Rome; passed to Ottomans 14th cen.; ruins a "text" of Hellenistic art. (Source: Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Notes) [website]; http://www.getty.edu /research/conducting _research/vocabulari es/tgn/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A3-R-T-P-1-I4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Pergamon Acropolis [site]