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

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