A high-relief marble panel from the south side of the Gigantomachy frieze on the Pergamon Altar, the Hellenistic monument built for King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC, held by the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. The panel shows Helios rising from the ocean in his quadriga, armed with a torch, entering the battle against the Giants and rolling one underfoot as he advances, positioned in the frieze's sequence of divine combatants after Eos, goddess of dawn. It is a separate panel from the frieze's east-side Athena and Alcyoneus scene already in this atlas, part of the same 113-metre frieze but a different figure group. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Physical Form
MediumSourced to the subject's own accountCarved marble, high relief, about 166 to 156 BC 1 Classification
Object TypeSourced to the subject's own account Medium (class)Sourced to the subject's own account In Other Languages (34 names)
- Пергамски олтар
- Aoter Pergamon
- Altar de Zeus a Pèrgam
- Pergamonský oltář
- Pergamonaltret
- Pergamonaltar
- Βωμός της Περγάμου
- Altaro de Pergamo
- Altar de Pérgamo
- Pergamoni altar
- Pergamoko aldarea
- محراب پرگامون
- Pergamonin alttari
- Grand Autel de Pergame
- Altar na Pergamon
- מזבח פרגמון
- Pergamski oltar
- Pergamon-oltár
- Altar Pergamon
- Altare di Zeus
- ペルガモンの大祭壇
- პერგამონის საკურთხეველი
- Pergamono altorius
- Pergamonalteret
- Ołtarz pergamoński
- Пергамский алтарь
- Pergamski žrtvenik
- Pergamský oltár
- Pergamonski oltar
- Пергамонски жртвеник
- Bergama Zeus Sunağı
- Пергамський вівтар
- Bệ thờ Pergamon
- 帕加马祭坛
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Associated With
This source names Athena directly: "It is a separate panel from the frieze's east-side Athena and Alcyoneus scene already in this atlas, part of the same 113-metre frieze but a different figure group."
Source Pergamon Altar, Wikipedia
This source names Athena directly: "It is a separate panel from the frieze's east-side Athena and Alcyoneus scene already in this atlas, part of the same 113-metre frieze but a different figure group."
Source Pergamon Altar, Wikipedia
Depicts
Shown rising from the ocean in his chariot armed with a torch, one of the Gigantomachy's divine combatants in Pergamene Hellenistic art's own telling of the battle, on display at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
Source Pergamon Altar, Wikipedia
Additional Source Helios Panel, South Frieze, Pergamon Altar, File Record (Wikimedia Commons)
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1. Pergamon Altar, Wikipedia
Wikipedialead, on the altar construction and scale
was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II of the Pergamon Empire in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It was described as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by three known classical lists.
catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A high-relief marble panel from the south side of the Gigantomachy frieze on the Pergamon Altar, the Hellenistic monument built for King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC, held by the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
View the Source Ancient Greek art (Wikipedia)
In Group: Ancient Greek Art, Pergamon Altar, Hellenistic monument, first half of the 2nd century BCView the Source Helios Panel, South Frieze, Pergamon Altar, File Record (Wikimedia Commons)
Wikimedia CommonsDepicts: HeliosQuote, Depicts: Helios
Helios (The Sun, left), South Frieze, Gigantomachy Frieze, Pergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
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