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  • The exhibition's "dramatic climax"—according to Andreas Scholl, director of the Berlin State Museums' classical antiquities collection—is a section called "Victorious Rulers," which displays statuary meant to commemorate the Pergamene kingdom's triumph over invading Celts, or Gauls, in the third century B.C. It turns out that some of the most famous Roman antiquities excavated in Italy are copies of Hellenistic sculpture created in Pergamon.

    Conjuring a Wonder of the Ancient World J.S. Marcus 2011

  • Staking their claim, the Pergamene rulers built their acropolis on the Athenian model.

    The Gods Do Battle 2007

  • (The son's writhing pose and the snake coiling round his arm evoke the celebrated Laocoön at the Vatican -- a Roman copy, some say, of a Pergamene original.)

    The Gods Do Battle 2007

  • The Pergamenes finally won on the right, but by the time they did the Pergamene center and left had evaporated.

    Fort Floreat Report 21/09/05 Nick 2005

  • The Pergamenes finally won on the right, but by the time they did the Pergamene center and left had evaporated.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Nick 2005

  • In 200 it was captured by a combined Roman, Pergamene and Rhodian fleet, and remained a possession of Pergamum until the dissolution of that kingdom in 133 B.C.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • Rhodes, e.g., was the great workshop of Greek sculptors who continued, though in a decadent way, the glorious traditions of the Ionian and Pergamene ages.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • This dashing exploit of the Achaeans compelled Seleucus to remove his camp from Pergamene soil.

    The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

  • After charging and raiding in all directions these intractable allies were penned by the repeated efforts of both the Seleucid and the Pergamene kings into the upper Sakaria basin (henceforth to be known as Galatia) and there they formed a screen behind which Bithynia and Paphlagonia maintained sturdy independence.

    The Ancient East 1894

  • A Pergamene inscription contains part of a 'Royal Law' which apparently dates from one of the Attalid rulers.

    Ancient Town-Planning 1889

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