Adıyaman Archaeological Museum

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Adıyaman Archaeological Museum

The Adıyaman Archaeological Museum is located at the intersection of Ataturk Bulvarı and Cumhuriyet Caddesi in the center of the Turkish provincial capital Adıyaman . Archaeological finds from the near and far surroundings of the city as well as from rescue excavations in the course of the Southeast Anatolia project are on display in the museum.

history

Consecration relief of Iupiter Dolichenus from the necropolis of Perrhe

When the planning of the Southeast Anatolia Project began in the late 1970s, emergency excavations were undertaken in numerous places in the Euphrates region around Adıyaman, as various archaeological sites in the area were threatened by the planned construction of dams. 1978 began to collect finds from the excavations in the building of the municipal library. The current building was completed in 1982 and opened under the first director Emin Yener. The museum was involved in the rescue excavations in the tumuli of Levzin and Sofraz and in Haraba as well as in the excavations in the commagenic city ​​of Perrhe in the urban area of ​​today's Adıyaman. Since 2008, employees of the Asia Minor research center have been working with Margherita Facella from Pisa and C. Crowther from Oxford to record and process the inscriptions in the museum.

Exhibition building

Stele of the Hittite weather god

The one-story museum building contains the archive, a photo laboratory and workshops in the basement. Part of the ground floor houses administration rooms, the rest consists of two exhibition halls and a connecting room. On display are Paleolithic tools, Neolithic arrowheads, clay vessels from the Copper Age and spearheads, cookware and jewelry from the Bronze and Iron Ages , as well as exhibits from the Hellenistic and Roman era such as statues, mosaics, stone, ceramic and glass vessels. In addition, numerous inscriptions from all epochs since the Bronze Age and coins are part of the house's collection. It is worth mentioning a stele of the weather god as well as various steles and stones with hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions on the outside of the house. The collection is completed by evidence from Islamic, especially Seljuk and Ottoman times. Places of origin include the commagenic places Perrhe, Samosata , Ancoz and Direk Kale. A remarkable dedicatory relief of Jupiter Dolichenus comes from Perrhe .

Donald H. Sanders, the editor of the excavation documentation of Nemrut Dağı , states that in 1985 there were 37 boxes with fragments of the sculptures and inscriptions in the basement of the museum.

The director of the museum Fehmi Erarslan indicates a visitor number of 30,000 for 2010.

Significant exhibits

The following exhibits are described in separate articles:

Web links

Commons : Adıyaman Archaeological Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Karl Dörner The Throne of the Gods on Nemrud Dağ 2nd edition Gustav Lübbe 1987, ISBN 3-7857-0277-9 , p. 245.
  2. ↑ Donald H. Sanders (ed.): The Hierothesion of Antiochos I of Commagene . Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 1996, ISBN 1-57506-015-9 , p. 482.
  3. ↑ Adıyaman Müze Müdürü Eraslan Açıklaması (Turkish)

Coordinates: 37 ° 45 ′ 46 ″  N , 38 ° 16 ′ 41 ″  E