Berlin 3

The Pergamon Museum

Late start this morning did not get out until about 10am.

Walked over to the Museum Island. There are at least 4 significant museums on this island in the Spree.

We we're headed for the Pergamon Museum which has a world famous rebuild of a temple from the ancient city of Pergamon in coastal Turkey.

You wait in a queue to buy you ticket... you enter and the first thing you see is

The Pergamon Temple in the first room of the museum

This is a truly spectacular reconstruction using a lot of material from excavations in Turkey in the late 19thC. This temple originally took 20 years to build and decorate. There is a spectacular frieze that is 190 metres long and originally surrounded the pediment of the temple. It has been reconstructed  as far as possible and surrounds the room this display is in. There are parts that are on the reconstruction

It depicts the struggle between the Gods of Olympus and the Giants.

A model of the temple as it would have appeared  new

A gate from Miletus

Emperor Trajan

A balcony added to the temple by the Romans

Part of the decoration of the entrance to the Gate of Ishtar in Persia

The Gate of Ishtar

 In the Neues Museum
This museum has the original of the Bust of Nefertiti. Unfortunately no photos are allowed but the portrait buts if very beautiful

Egyptian

Egyptian court official

More Egyptian sculpture, a very fine piece

Amenhotep the something

Bronze age, Gold hat with the full 19yr lunar cycle.

From Troy a vase showing Achiles killing a nephew? of Priam

A Pedicab once more back to the Adina. Our driver, Valentin, was very chatty and although the journey was short, he enlightened us on the area we were passing through.

Museums are very tiring.. Early to be tonight, off to Dresden tomorrow.