Antioch, Museum

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

Ganymede mosaic	The Antakya Stela	Pertinax	Eros and Psyche
Half a mina	Orpheus Mosaic	Mosaic of Tryphe and Bios (luxury and life)	The Aristotelian philosophical institute
Antiochus I Soter, coin with elephants	Lucius Verus	Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator	The hippodrome in the northern part of the city
Seated orator	Weight	Mosaic of an athlete	Helen
Issus (Kinet Höyük), Medieval comb	Front	Seleucus II Callinicus	Lion chase
River god Orontes	Front: the two deceased, flanking Apollo	Trebonianus Gallus	Detail: child and panther
Short side: the deceased woman and her sons?	Human remains	Antioch, Mosaic of an Amazonomachy	Zeus' thunderbolt on a coin from Seleucia in Pieria
Heracles and the snakes	Weight	Short side: the two deceased, pooring a libation	Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Issus (Kinet Höyük), Ancient comb. Archaeological Museum of Antioch (Turkey)	Roman portait from Iskenderun	Issus (Kinet Höyük), Hellenistic statuette	Sidemara sarcophagus from Antioch
Lion chase, detail	Antiochus VII Sidetes	Mosaic of the Alpheius river god