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

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