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.
 Lysippus' Alexander
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 Palmyra, Jupiter Heliopolitanus
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 Constantinople, Golden Gate, statue of a tetrarch
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 Yemenite relief of a woman and a man, seated on dromedaries, meeting at a well
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 4, Lycian sarcophagus
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 Troy VIII, Head of Zeus
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 Mada'in Saleh, Head of a man
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 Dascylium, Relief of a Magian venerating the fire
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 Palmyra, Tombstone of a man
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 Alexandria near Issus, Roman tombstone
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 Hippodrome, Porphyrius Monument of the Blues
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 Constantinople, Tombstone of Menios
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 Dascylium, Frieze of women on horseback
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 Jerusalem, Temple Inscription
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 1, Sarcophagus of the mourning women
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 Pergamon, Portrait of Alexander the Great
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 7, Greek-style sarcophagus
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 Nineveh, Stele of Sennacherib
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 Aššur, Door plaques of Šalmaneser III
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 Ephesus, Archaic temple of Artemis, Ivory figurine of the goddess
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (18) (Abdalonymus)
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 Aššur, Syllabilary with old and new cuneiform signs
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 Mada'in Saleh, Sundial
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 Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Relief with soldiers
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 Pergamon, Portrait of Augustus
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 Perinthus, Relief of Micallus
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 Assos, Temple of Athena, Façade
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 Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Arcadius
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 Saba'a, Relief of Adad-Nirari III
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 Hattusa, Deeds of Šuppililiuma
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 Samos, Heracles as archer
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 Constantinople, Sea Wall, Royal Gate, Marble decoration
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 Nimrud, Northwest Palace of Aššurnasirpal II, Genie
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 Dascylium, Long funerary stele, detail: chariot
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (11) (Perdiccas?)
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 Aššur, Old Palace, Head of a lamassu
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 Cyzicus, Charioteer
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 Samos, Head of a kouros
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 Ephesus, Archaic temple of Artemis, Gold falcon
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 Amida, Relief of Naram-Sin
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 Dascylium, Short funerary stele: chariot: dinner scene
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 Aššur, Altar of Tikulti-Ninurta I
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 Nicomedia, Sarcophagus
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 Roman statue of the Egyptian god Bes from Amathus
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 Sidon, Funerary stele of Salmamodes
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 Tenedos, Head of Hermes (archaizing)
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 4, Lycian sarcophagus, Sphinxes
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 Troy VIII, Metope
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 Baalbek, Temple of Jupiter, Lion
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 Coin of the Bosphorus
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 Chalcedon, Tombstone of Severius Acceptus of VIII Augusta
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 Miletus, Statue of Apollo
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 Hattusa, Hittite laws about personal damage
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 Aphrodisias, Valentinian II
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 Troy VIII, Treaty between Troy and six other towns
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 Kanesh, Letter (in an envelope) concerning silver debt
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 Adana, Portrait of Hadrian
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 The Gezer Calendar
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 Priene, Aphrodite
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 Aelia Eudocia II
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 Pergamon, Portrait of Agrippina Maior
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (02) Alexander
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 Alexander the Great
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 Dascylium, Long funerary stele, Inscription
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 Pella, Tombstone of a Macedonian warrior
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 Hattusa, Kadesh Treaty
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 Alexander the Great
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 Perinthus, Tombstone of Paulus of III Italica
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 Kanesh, Account of a caravan
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 Dascylium, Relief of two Magians sacrificing a sheep and a bull
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 Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Tombstone of an aquilifer of II Adiutrix
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 Troy IX, Figurine of Cybele
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 Dascylium, Short funerary stele: chariot
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 2, Sarcophagus of Tabnit
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 Smyrna, Sappho (Roman copy of a Hellenistic portrait)
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 Nicaea, Funerary relief of Menas
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 Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Orpheus
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 Assos, Temple of Athena, Façade
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 Assos, Temple of Athena, Façade
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 Hellenistic funeral stele
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 Nicaea, Statue of Cybele (Roman copy of a Hellenistic original)
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 Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius, Tombstone of Aurelius Suro of I Adiutrix
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 Samos, Head of a kouros
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 Nicomedia, Portrait of Diocletian
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 Cyzicus, Column drum
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 Troy VIIb, Pottery
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 Hattusa, Letter of king Hattusilis III to king Kadashman-Enlil II of Babylonia
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 Jerusalem, Siloam Inscription
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 Byblos, Statue of Poseidon
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 Aššur, Statue of Šalmaneser III
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 Ephesus, Archaic temple of Artemis, Ivory lion
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 6, Sarcophagus of the satrap
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 Alexandria near Issus, Roman tombstone
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 Smyrna, Relief with a tribute to Euripides
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Alexander sarcophagus (09) Hephaestion
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 Ivriz, Relief of king Warpalas and the god Tarhunza
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 Sidon, Funerary stele of Dioscurides
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 Troy VI, "Minaean" pottery
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 1, Egyptian-style sarcophagus
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 Snake head from the Greek victory monument in Delphi, later brought to Constantinople
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 Bor, Relief of king Warpalas, inscription
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 Pergamene copy of the Alcamenes herm
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 3, Sidon, Alexander Sarcophagus
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 Halicarnassus, Mausoleum, Lion
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 Dascylium, Short funerary stele
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 Hippodrome, Kathisma, capital
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 Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper
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 Perinthus, Portrait of Commodus
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 Sidon, Bustan esh-Sheikh, Egyptianizing head
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 Abydus, Anastasius' passage law
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 Hippodrome, Porphyrius Monument of the Greens
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 Dascylium, Long funerary stele
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 Kallipolis, Relief of Cybele
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 Pergamon, Relief of a hero
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 Seleucia in Pieria, Sarcophagus with the Dioscuri
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 Perinthus, Portrait of a man
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 Cyzicus, Kouros
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 Didyma, Head of Zeus
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 Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 2, Mixed Egyptian-Greek-style sarcophagus
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 Nicomedia, Sea god
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 Abydus, Roman tombstone
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 Yemen, Arab warrior
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 Bor, Relief of king Warpalas
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 Sarcophagus from the Persian age
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 Bolu, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Galatian torques
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