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