A Charioteer, a Serpent, and a Missing Identity: Decoding a Relief in the Bergama Museum

Badly Labelled Artifacts Series

Architectural Fragment, Roman Period, Bergama Museum, Turkey. November 2024 @artemisexpert

There’s something thrilling about walking into a quiet museum, and suddenly being pulled in by a piece no one else seems to notice. In November of last year I was in the Bergama Museum in Turkey, a modest but rich collection of Pergamon’s ancient past, when I saw t…