Dome

The Temenos of Athena, general view, from the south, with the Trajaneum visible in the distance (the Temenos of Athena was the sacred space around the principal temple of Hellenistic Pergamon, the Temple of Athena Polias, which no longer exists); Under Persian rule 5th cen. BC; prosperous Hellenistic city during rule of Eumenes I & Attalids (282-133 BC); bequeathed by Attalus III to Rome 133 BC; to Byzantines after fall of Rome; passed to Ottomans 14th cen.; ruins a "text" of Hellenistic art. Source: Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Notes) [website]; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ (accessed 2/14/2008)