UNL Image & Multimedia Collections

- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- This goddess was long considered to be Nyx; it is now assumed that it is one of the Erinyes, goddesses of revenge. She is holding a vessel wrapped in snakes, ready to hurl it
- Gigantomachy, North frieze; Nyx or an Erinyes, detail of her drapery
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- The next relief panel has barely survived. It is supposed that it showed Demeter. She is followed by Hera, entering the battle in a quadriga. Her four winged horses are identified as the personifications of the four winds, Notos, Boreas, Zephyros...
- Gigantomachy, East frieze; fragments that originally showed Demeter
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Gigantomachy, East frieze; detail, wings of Nike
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Helios, rises up from the ocean with his quadriga and enters the battle armed with a torch. His target is a Giant standing in his way. He has rolled over another Giant
- Gigantomachy, South frieze; raking view of the horse of Helios attacking a standing Giant
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- The eastern frieze concludes with Ares, the god of war, who goes into battle with a chariot and pair of horses. His horses rear up in front of a winged Giant
- Gigantomachy, East frieze; rearing horse (part of the chariot of Ares)
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- There were possibly additional statues between the columns. This theory is supported by 30-odd sculptures of women among the finds; they may have personified the cities of the Pergamene kingdom
- One of the unidentified statues of women, perhaps personifications of the cities of the Pergamene (Attalid) kingdom; found in the altar area
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- There were possibly additional statues between the columns. This theory is supported by 30-odd sculptures of women among the finds; they may have personified the cities of the Pergamene kingdom
- One of the unidentified statues of women, perhaps personifications of the cities of the Pergamene (Attalid) kingdom; found in the altar area
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Gigantomachy, North frieze; beginning of the North side with Aphrodite with her foot on the head of a Giant (Eros is not visible, he is above)
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Reconstruction in museum, passageway into museum that would have led into an inner court and the fire altar in the original structure
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- A corner risalit is where two wings meet at right-angles
- View of the north risalit (extending wing) of the west facade; the west frieze wraps around this to the inside of the stairs; behind it on the museum wall the North frieze is displayed
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Museum model of the presumed form of the altar, view of the west facade and stairs; this is what constitutes the museum reconstruction of the structure
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- There were possibly additional statues between the columns. This theory is supported by 30-odd sculptures of women among the finds; they may have personified the cities of the Pergamene kingdom
- Museum model of the presumed form of the altar, detail of the south facade
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Detail, Ionic order of the superstructure with sculpture on the roof
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- The entire North frieze is displayed in a continuous band on the museum wall, then also at the point were it would have been seen on the reconstructed West facade superstructure
- Gigantomachy, North frieze; as installed on reconstruction of west facade superstructure, starting at the point of one of the Erinyes and ending with Poseidon
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, in keeping with her function she fights with a bow and arrow against a Giant who is perhaps Otos. Her hunting dog kills another Giant with a bite to the neck
- Gigantomachy, East frieze; Artemis fights with bow and arrow as her hunting dog kills a Giant
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- The next pair of fighters also shows an especially important battle scene. Athena, the city goddess of Pergamon, breaks the Giant Alkyoneus' contact to the earth, from which the mother of the Giants, Gaia, emerges
- Gigantomachy, East frieze; Athena and Nike fight Alkyoneus (left), Gaia rises up from the ground (right), raking view
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- On the roof of the altar there were various small statues of gods, teams of horses, centaurs, and lion griffins. The finds have not yet been unambiguously described by archaeologists as to their function and placement
- Fragment of a lion griffin which would have decorated the roof
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- There were possibly additional statues between the columns. This theory is supported by 30-odd sculptures of women among the finds; they may have personified the cities of the Pergamene kingdom
- One of the unidentified statues of women, perhaps personifications of the cities of the Pergamene (Attalid) kingdom, detail drapery and foot
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Reconstructed portico top of stairway between the inside court with the fire altar and the Telephus frieze, looking up from below
- Archivision
- Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]
- Museum gallery and installation; Gigantomachy, South frieze (second half visible on left), Gigantomachy, East frieze (first half visible on right); with unidentified free-standing figures from the altar area
- Archivision