Historical place profile
Pergamum
Pergamum was a Hellenistic royal centre, Roman provincial city and one of the seven churches addressed in Revelation.
Historical layers
- Attalid royal capital
- Roman city of Asia
- Early Christian community
- Late-antique and Byzantine settlement
Church-history significance
Revelation 2:12–17 addresses the church at Pergamum in the language of witness, idolatry and perseverance. The text should be read within the city’s imperial and cultic environment without reducing every symbol to one monument.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 550812
- Revelation 2:12–17
- Archaeological and epigraphic records of Pergamum
Map semantics
The coordinate at 39.1325, 27.184167 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550812
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550812
- Place type
- settlement
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 E3 Pergamum