Antioch, Museum

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A very large museum with many mosaics and some sculpture, including a splendid sarcophagus. When I visited the place for the last time, parts of the museum were closed because it was moving to another location in a different part of the city. There's a room with Assyrian objects and there are medieval finds, but most of it is Hellenistic and especially Roman.

It may be noted that the museum was built on the place where the Crusaders made their famous sortie from besieged Antioch.

This museum was visited in 2004, 2007, 2011.

39 pictures related to this museum

Issus (Kinet Höyük), Ancient comb	Antioch, Mosaic of an Amazonomachy	Antioch, Mosaic of Heracles strangling two snakes	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Front: the two deceased, flanking Apollo
Mosaic of the Alpheius river god	Seleucia in Pieria, Weight (prow)	Issus (Kinet Höyük), Medieval comb	Antioch, Aristotelian philosophical institute
Seleucia in Pieria, Weight of half a mina (horse)	Seleucia in Pieria, Statue of Lucius Verus	Tarsus, Mosaic of Tryphe and Bios (luxury and life)	Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Tarsus, Mosaic of Ganymede	Antiochus I Soter, coin with elephants	Seleucia in Pieria, Statue of the Orontes	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Short side: the deceased woman and her sons?
Helen	Seleucus II Callinicus	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, detail: child and panther	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus
Seleucia in Pieria, Coin with Zeus' thunderbolt	Issus, Hellenistic figurine of a lady	Antioch, Mosaic of the hippodrome	Seleucia in Pieria, Statue of a seated orator
Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus: Lion hunt	Trebonianus Gallus	Antiochus VII Sidetes	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus: Lion hunt, detail
Tarsus, Mosaic of Orpheus	The Antakya Stela	Seleucia in Pieria, Mosaic of the athlete Nikostratos	Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator
Alexandria near Issus, Portrait of a man	Seleucia in Pieria, Weight (bull)	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Front	Seleucia in Pieria, Mosaic of Eros and Psyche
Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, skeletons	Pertinax	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Short side: the two deceased, pooring a libation