Stoa of Eumenes

View looking west along about half the length of the Stoa of Eumenes.  This stoa was the largest construction on the southern slope of the acropolis being 150 yrds. [163 m.] long.  It ran to the west of the Theater of Dionysus and today – but not originally – reaches the Odeion of Herodes Atticus .

It was constructed by Eumenes II (197-159 B.C.), a powerful king of Pergamum.  In design it looked very much like the Stoa of Attalus that was built by another king of Pergamum!

Like the Stoa of Attalus it was a double wide stoa and was two stories high.  On the right of the image notice the still standing buttressed retaining wall.  Above this wall was a peripatos (walkway).

The column on the right side of the image is crowned with a “Pergamene Capital."

For a general view of the area Click Here .