Pergamum
noun
an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
Pergamene
-
a word derived from
Pergamum.
Example Sentences
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It’s their world that’s on show here, whether in the grand public displays of the Pergamene rulers or in quieter, more domestic objets d’art.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2016
The same thuggish visage would appear on Pergamene coins for more than a century, as successive rulers honored the founder of their dynasty.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2016
It is a fine work of the Pergamene school.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
The testament was brought to Rome by Eudemus the Pergamene, whose first business was with the senate.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
The wars, therefore, in which the Pergamene kings in the latter part of the 3rd century stemmed their aggressions, had the glory of a Hellenic crusade.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
