Talk:Pergamon Altar
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according to german wikipedia, the gate wasn't smuggled out of pergamon, but bought for 20.000 Mark from the turkish authorities (or whoever was in charge then)
where's the source for the smuggling theory?
- How about: "The Altar of Zeus was smuggled to Germany in 1897." [1]
- But it sounds like there may be a German / Turkish POV issue here. -- ALoan (Talk) 21:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
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- According to the german article about Carl Humann, he had the permission of the ottomans for his excavations. I doubt the transport of the altar was considered smuggling at the time it happened, since what we now mostly consider cultural vandalism [2] was pretty much standard practice at the time and even practiced by the rulers of the country [3].
Why is Hellenistic art "pedantic"?
[edit] Note 5: Steven J. Friesen
The phrase:
"The altar is mentioned in the Book of Revelation, Revelation 2:12-13: "In Pergamos where Satan's Throne is"."
should eihter be removed altogether or be directed to another reference. The text does not reflect the authors conclusion. Friesen does not support this theory - he explicitly says that he believes that it is wrong.
The full text can be found at: http://jnt.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/27/3/351
- Here! Here! After a solid reading of many translations of the passages (please see [4]), this statement is of the merest and thinnest conjecture. Mfryc 23:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
