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