The Anatolian continent, also known as Asia Minor, is a cultural geography that has hosted various civilisations for thousands of years. Mysia, an ancient region located in the northwest of this region, hosted the significant ancient Greek city of Pergamon from the 3rd century BCE until the 3rd century CE. The Pergamon project is a Greek type revival project based on the stone inscriptions of Pergamon’s Acropolis and Asklepion. The project comprises the documentation of Pergamon’s elaborate epigraphic cultural heritage, to be transformed into a typeface via a contemporary digital tools. The goal of the project is to bring a breath of fresh air to the two-thousand-year-old carved stone inscriptions by digitizing and making them functional in today’s context. It can also be a tool for contemporary designers who deal with Greek script typography to discover the origins of these letters and create new typographic contexts. Additionally, it can be regarded as an educational tool that contributes to archaeology students’ epigraphic and linguistic training, as it offers an opportunity to study these letterforms in advance. What interested me personally was to explore the letters’ visual journey by tracing their craftspeople from two millennia ago. This project presents photographs of the inscriptions, which are the main elements of this project; a digital typeface design based on them, and the visual output of the jewelry, as a three-dimensional object designed with this typeface.
The Pergamon Project
