May 05, 2005
May 5 Photos: Katherine
A view of the landscape around the akropolis of Pergamon. The remains of a Roman aqueduct are visible in the middle of the picture.
Neha as human scale in front of one side of the Trajaneum, a peripteral building of the second century AD dedicated to the Roman Emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
Abby plays the worried seer (from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia) in a pediment of the Trajaneum.
The group poses next to a colonnade that surrounds the Trajaneum.
The base of the Great Altar of Zeus and Athena, built in the Hellenistic period. The superstructure of the altar, including its spectacular frieze depicting the battle of the gods versus the giants, is now in a museum in Berlin.
The Hellenistic theater from above.
The group gets comfortable on the andesite seats of the theater.
Caleb and Laura with the pediment of the Temple of Dionysus, which was on the same terrace as the orchestra of the theater. The temple dates to the second century BCE.
Nkosi as a column for the Temple of Dionysus.
Jackie with part of the frieze and pediment from the Shrine of Hera, which overlooked the gymnasium complex on the lower slopes of the akropolis. The shrine was built in the second century BCE.
While in the gymnasium, we found several cows. Here Laura makes friends with a calf.
A wall of the “Red Hall,” built in the second century AD. This building, which now stands in the modern city of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), may have been dedicated to the worship of the Egyptian gods Serapis, Isis and Harpocrates. A church was built inside the walls of the building during the early Christian period.
Nkosi with a fragment of one of the supports of a colonnade of the “Red Hall.” Each of these supports was carved with two Egyptian-style figures. One side features an Atlas-like figure, and the other, a caryatid.
A Roman bronze snake found at the Asklepieum, now in the Bergama Museum. We had several encounters with snakes today on the akropolis. Fortunately, Hüsnü tells us that they are not poisonous.
Laura finds another cow in this Roman relief of Demeter at the Bergama Museum.
Caleb imitates a sculpture of a lion in the courtyard of the Bergama Museum. The lion is from the Hellenistic period and was found at Hamzah village near Bergama.
Peter and Hüsnü look into a structure once used as a mud bath at the Asclepieum, which lies outside of the old city.
The Roman theater and the colonnade of the North Stoa can be seen in this view of the Asclepieum, from the temple of Asclepius.
Peter stands between a mushroom-shaped column capital and a an Aeolic column capital from the Athena Temple of Smyrna, in the Izmir Museum.
Peter and Caleb with antithetic griffins from the Beleri Mausoleum, in the Izmir Museum. These third century BCE griffins would have stood on the edge of the roof of the building.