The Pergamon Museum, Berlin
I visited the museum for the first
time, on a rainy day, during a break from business
meetings in April 2008. The Pergamon Museum is nowhere
near as big as the British Museum or the Louvre, but
contains such significant treasures as Babylon's Northern
"Ishtar" gate, and the temple at Pergamon from which the
museum takes its name. The building also houses the
Museum of Oriental and Islamic art, from which the
Sasanid bowl pictured below is taken.
The museum had a "no flash" policy,
so apologies if the pictures lack colour.
Entrance to the museum, on Museum Island
Pergamon altar, left side
Pergamon altar, right side
Frieze fragment, Pergamon altar
Frieze fragment, Pergamon altar
Frieze fragment, Pergamon altar
View from the top of the steps, Pergamon altar
Emperor Trajan
Emperor Trajan
From Ishtar Gate of Babylon
From Ishtar Gate of Babylon
From Ishtar Gate of Babylon
From Ishtar Gate of Babylon
From Ishtar Gate of Babylon
From Ishtar Gate of Babylon
Victory stele of King Esarhaddon, Assyria 671 BC
Augustus
Augustus
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Gladiator relief, Ephesus
Sarcophagus fragment - chariot race
