Reported Live Science, Monday (4/10/2021), an excavation project funded by the German Research Foundation found two chairs estimated to be 1,800 years old belonging to an imperial noble.
“This VIP inscription shows that this chair belonged to royalty with their names engraved on it,” Felix Pirson, director of the Istanbul branch of the German Archaeological Institute told Anadolu Agency.
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The Pergamon Amphitheater, known for its unique arrangement, was built between the mountainside and the western slope of the hill when the area was part of the Roman Empire.
According to Transformation of the Pergamon Micro-Region (TransPergMikro), this is one of the best-preserved amphitheaters but has never been studied in detail and accurately. For that archaeologist TransPergMikro as well as the German Institute of Archeology and the Technical University conducted research here.
Hard work paid off after finding the box chair. “This discovery suggests that this particular chair belonged to a special individual,” the archaeologists wrote in the post.
“Another detail that caught our attention was that the Latin name was written in Greek letters. We believe that some people from Italy had a special place in the Pergamon amphitheater,” Pirson said.
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The team dug up the chair and analyzed it with 3D photogrammetry, a technique that involves taking several detailed photos of objects from different angles to create an accurate 3D digital image.
The beams are now on display in the courtyard of the Red Basilica, a ruined temple of ancient Pergamon, in the Turkish city of Bergama.
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