Altertümer von Pergamon
For 120 years, Pergamon has been the largest and richest site excavated by the German Archaeological Institute. Following the sensational discovery of the Pergamon Altar in the 1870s, this antique metropolis in Asia Minor has been systematically uncovered.
The present Altertümer von Pergamon series contains the definitive results of the excavations, going far beyond the provisional accounts previously published in the preliminary reports. The volumes are published on an irregular basis and deal mainly with the buildings and architectural complexes, together with the individual finds from within them. In addition, the series presents the final version of the inscriptions from Pergamon. Genre questions and other individual topics relating to Pergamon are dealt with in the companion series, Pergamenische Forschungen.
Questions about the size and dimensions of the Pergamon Altar prompted an architectural inventory of its foundation and the cataloging of its still extant façade fragments. The stone-by-stone mapping of the remaining substructure yielded, among other things, an architectural catalog of the marble elements. This permitted façades that could be properly reconciled with the base, thereby correcting older reconstructions.
