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