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The reconstructed Pergamon Altar in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Side view Carl Humann's 1881 plan of the Pergamon acropolis. The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Asia Minor ...
The term movable altar or portable altar is now used of a full-scale structural altar, with or without an inserted altar stone, that can be moved. [20] (298) Movable altars include the free-standing wooden tables without altar stone, placed in the choir away from the east wall, favoured by churches in the Reformed tradition.
From at least the 5th century BC, the Altar became the zero point from which distances to Athens were calculated. [11] A milestone, c. 400 BC, found near the gate to the Acropolis reads: "The city set me up, a truthful monument to show all mortals the measure of their journeying: the distance to the altar of the twelve gods from the harbor is forty-five stades". [12]
Central Athens (Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Acropolis, Kerameikos, Pnyx, Colonus, Areopagus, Kallimarmaro Stadium, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Temple of Hephaestus, Ancient Agora of Athens, Roman Forum, Theatre of Dionysus)
To the left is the Holy Table (altar) with the Gospel Book on the High Place. To the right is the Cathedra (Bishop's Throne). In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches the High Place is the name used for the location of the cathedra (episcopal throne), set in the center of the apse of a church's sanctuary, behind the Holy ...
Altar of Aphrodite Urania, Athenia Agora, current state, seen from the south Marble barriers from the altar of Aphrodite Urania. The altar was 5.08 metres long and 2.40 metres wide and oriented north-south. [8] It consisted of the superstructure of the altar and a "sill" of hard blue limestone 0.27 metres high.
Estimated floor plan of the original Temple of Ares with adjacent altar. The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from the temple found throughout the Agora enable a full, if tentative, reconstruction of the temple's appearance and ...
The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules (Latin: Herculis Invicti Ara Maxima) [a] stood in the Forum Boarium near the Tiber River in ancient Rome.It was the earliest cult location of Hercules in Rome, possibly originally dating as early as the 6th century bc.