Altar of Zeus, eastern frieze: Athena fighting the Giants

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Title Altar of Zeus, eastern frieze: Athena fighting the Giants
Site Upper Citadel
Location City/State Pergamon (origin)
Location Country Turkey
Style Period Ancient Greece: Hellenistic; Antiquity
Patron Eumenes II
Description exterior, Athena and Alkyoneus
Subject Architecture
Subject AAT Minerva; Jupiter
Creation Date begun ca. 165 BCE
Form relief
Medium marble
Dimensions H: 7' 6"
Repository Pergamonmuseum (Staatliche Museen), Berlin (Germany)
Source The Pergamon Altar: Its Rediscovery, History, and Reconstruction. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 1995.; Slide Library 130 -Antiquity Sites
Work ID 1442
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6r81r2g
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 27282
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6r81r2g
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