The publication of the new archaeological map of Pergamon is an important milestone in the study of the ancient metropolis. For the first time since 1973 a new cartographic basis for the ancient city of Pergamon is available. The new map represents all known archaeological remains. Excavations, for example, from the 1930s and 1950s at the Musalla Mezarlığı or the excavations of the Bergama Museum over the last fifteen years have now also been included.
For a better understanding of the city and its buildings in relation to the terrain, the buildings of the post-antique period have been blanked, but can be overlaid if necessary. The same applies to the Kestel dam and its water reservoir. The original relief in the area of the modern reservoir has been reconstructed on the basis of older maps.
The Pergamon Digital Map is published by the Pergamon Excavation of the DAI in cooperation with Museum Bergama, Hochschule Karlsruhe Technik und Wirtschaft and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.
The digital versions of the new archaeological map are dynamic and will be continuously updated accordingly. Current version: Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1 (December 2020)
Online map service
A digital version of the map is hosted on the iDAI.geoserver. The online map service offers a lot of additional information on more than hundred points of interest and many interactive tools.
Experience the map in full screen on the iDAI.geoserver
Open the map legend (de, eng, tr) here: Pergamon-Digital-Map_v1-1_legend
Two sections of the map with different scales are published as PDF:
The 1:5.000 map (A0) extends from the Niyazi Tepe in the northeast with the temple-tomb to the extra-urban thermal bath of Cleopatra Güzellik Ilıcası in the southwest. This covers a much larger area than on the 1973 map at 1:2.500, but does not quite match the 1:25.000 overview map by Otto Berlet from 1904.
The 1:2.000 map (A0) shows the ancient city hill with its immediate surroundings.
Download the map as PDF:
Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1_1-2000_german
Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1_1-5000_german
Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1_1-2000_turkish
Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1_1-5000_turkish
Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1_1-2000_english
Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1_1-5000_english
Cite this map as
“Digitale Karte von Pergamon 1.1 (DAI 2020)”
All forms of analogue or digital publication of the map or its parts require the explicit permission of the Pergamon Excavation of the DAI. The same applies to the use of the map or its sections for commercial purposes.
Please contact: sekretariat.istanbul[at]dainst.de
A high-resolution printed version of the map will be included in one of the next volumes of the series “Altertümer von Pergamon”.
Project coordinator: F. Pirson (DAI Istanbul), V. Stappmanns (Wiesbaden)
Graphics: V. Stappmanns (Wiesbaden), J. Lorentzen (Berlin), İ. Yeneroğlu (TU Berlin)
Cartographic basis: U. Klein (Hochschule Karlsruhe), students (Hochschule Karlsruhe & KIT Karlsruhe), Municipality of Bergama
Additional archaeological plans: Museum Bergama
iDAI.geoserver: B. Ludwig (DAI Istanbul), A. Skolik (DAI Athen), IT Department DAI Berlin
Thanks to: G. Ateş (Manisa Celal Bayar University), U. Mania (DAI Istanbul), N. Neuenfeld (DAI Istanbul), S. Tezer-Altay (DAI Istanbul) and A. Weiser (HTW Berlin)
For the excellent cooperation with the Museum Bergama in this project we would like to thank the directors Adnan Sarıoğlu and Nilgün Ustura as well as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey.