The department of Greek art, where you can see the splendid bust of Diocletian on the photo to the left, has reasonable dimensions – the other parts are immodestly big, and I wondered which museum had the largest archaeological collection: Istanbul or the Paris Louvre. I had not expected a museum of these dimensions, and was exhausted after visiting it three times in three days. And every object is splendid. It is, to paraphrase Truman Capote, like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Most departments of the museum close at five o’ clock, but the main building closes at seven. In the garden, between the ancient columns, tombstones, and sarcophagi, you can buy coffee, tea, and soft drinks. You will probably need them to survive this big, beautiful museum.
This museum was visited in 2008, 2012.
Hippodrome, Porphyrius Monument of the Greens
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 1, Egyptian-style sarcophagus
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Dascylium, Short funerary stele: chariot
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Palmyra, Jupiter Heliopolitanus
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Hippodrome, Porphyrius Monument of the Blues
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Seleucia in Pieria, Sarcophagus with the Dioscuri
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Kallipolis, Relief of Cybele
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Hattusa, Letter of king Hattusilis III to king Kadashman-Enlil II of Babylonia
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Hippodrome, Kathisma, capital
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Aphrodisias, Valentinian II
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Sidon, Funerary stele of Dioscurides
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Constantinople, Golden Gate, statue of a tetrarch
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Baalbek, Temple of Jupiter, Lion
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Pergamon, Portrait of Alexander the Great
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 6, Sarcophagus of the satrap
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Perinthus, Tombstone of Paulus of III Italica
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Palmyra, Tombstone of a man
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Cyzicus, Column drum
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Constantinople, Tombstone of Menios
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Smyrna, Relief with a tribute to Euripides
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Troy VI, "Minaean" pottery
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Jerusalem, Temple Inscription
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Kanesh, Letter (in an envelope) concerning silver debt
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Halicarnassus, Mausoleum, Lion
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Alexander the Great
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Bolu, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Galatian torques
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Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Arcadius
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 7, Greek-style sarcophagus
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Byblos, Statue of Poseidon
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (18) (Abdalonymus)
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Sidon, Funerary stele of Salmamodes
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Aššur, Altar of Tikulti-Ninurta I
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Kanesh, Account of a caravan
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Cyzicus, Kouros
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Tenedos, Head of Hermes (archaizing)
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Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper
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Troy VIII, Treaty between Troy and six other towns
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Amida, Relief of Naram-Sin
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Dascylium, Long funerary stele, Inscription
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Adana, Portrait of Hadrian
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Aššur, Syllabilary with old and new cuneiform signs
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Sidon, Alexander Sarcophagus
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Dascylium, Long funerary stele, detail: chariot
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Priene, Aphrodite
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Dascylium, Short funerary stele: chariot: dinner scene
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 2, Mixed Egyptian-Greek-style sarcophagus
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Yemenite relief of a woman and a man, seated on dromedaries, meeting at a well
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Hattusa, Hittite laws about personal damage
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The Gezer Calendar
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Aššur, Door plaques of Šalmaneser III
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Aelia Eudocia II
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Mada'in Saleh, Sundial
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Ephesus, Archaic temple of Artemis, Ivory figurine of the goddess
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Perinthus, Portrait of a man
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Hattusa, Kadesh Treaty
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Troy IX, Figurine of Cybele
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Snake head from the Greek victory monument in Delphi, later brought to Constantinople
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Miletus, Statue of Apollo
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Perinthus, Relief of Micallus
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Pergamon, Portrait of Augustus
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Ivriz, Relief of king Warpalas and the god Tarhunza
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Troy VIII, Head of Zeus
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Mada'in Saleh, Head of a man
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Nicomedia, Sarcophagus
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Assos, Temple of Athena, Façade
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Aššur, Old Palace, Head of a lamassu
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Pergamene copy of the Alcamenes herm
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Coin of the Bosphorus
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Dascylium, Relief of a Magian venerating the fire
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Sidon, Bustan esh-Sheikh, Egyptianizing head
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Dascylium, Relief of two Magians sacrificing a sheep and a bull
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Perinthus, Portrait of Commodus
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Jerusalem, Siloam Inscription
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Dascylium, Frieze of women on horseback
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 1, Sarcophagus of the mourning women
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Nicaea, Statue of Cybele (Roman copy of a Hellenistic original)
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Pella, Tombstone of a Macedonian warrior
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Dascylium, Short funerary stele
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Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Tombstone of an aquilifer of II Adiutrix
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Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Relief with soldiers
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (11) (Perdiccas?)
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Samos, Head of a kouros
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Pergamon, Portrait of Agrippina Maior
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Troy VIIb, Pottery
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Bor, Relief of king Warpalas
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Didyma, Head of Zeus
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Pergamon, Relief of a hero
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Nicomedia, Portrait of Diocletian
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Alexandria near Issus, Roman tombstone
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Ephesus, Archaic temple of Artemis, Gold falcon
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Troy VIII, Metope
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Lysippus' Alexander
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Chalcedon, Tombstone of Severius Acceptus of VIII Augusta
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Assos, Temple of Athena, Façade
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Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Tombstone of Aurelius Suro of I Adiutrix
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Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Orpheus
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Abydus, Roman tombstone
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Nimrud, Northwest Palace of Aššurnasirpal II, Genie
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Samos, Heracles as archer
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 4, Lycian sarcophagus, Sphinxes
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Roman statue of the Egyptian god Bes from Amathus
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Alexander the Great
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (09) Hephaestion
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Dascylium, Long funerary stele
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Ephesus, Archaic temple of Artemis, Ivory lion
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (02) Alexander
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Hellenistic funeral stele
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 2, Sarcophagus of Tabnit
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Nicaea, Funerary relief of Menas
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Smyrna, Sappho (Roman copy of a Hellenistic portrait)
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Aššur, Statue of Šalmaneser III
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Constantinople, Sea Wall, Royal Gate, Marble decoration
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Yemen, Arab warrior
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Abydus, Anastasius' passage law
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Hattusa, Deeds of Šuppililiuma
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Nicomedia, Sea god
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Alexandria near Issus, Roman tombstone
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Cyzicus, Charioteer
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Samos, Head of a kouros
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Sarcophagus from the Persian age
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Assos, Temple of Athena, Façade
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Saba'a, Relief of Adad-Nirari III
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Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 4, Lycian sarcophagus
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Nineveh, Stele of Sennacherib
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Bor, Relief of king Warpalas, inscription
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