Old royal capital of Asia, terraced up its mountain — 'where Satan's throne is' (Rev 2:12-17). The candidates: the Great Altar of Zeus (excavated and carried to Berlin — it stands today in the Pergamon Museum), the province's first imperial-cult temple, or the serpent-shrine of Asclepius; perhaps the whole skyline at once. Here Antipas, the book's only named martyr, was killed; here 'Balaam's teaching' — go along with the guild feasts — got its answer: hidden manna, and a white stone with a new name.