Museum Silifke
The Museum Silifke (Turkish name: Silifke Müzesi ) is a museum in the southern Turkish city of Silifke in the province of Mersin in ancient Cilicia .
history
Since the late 1940s, archaeological finds from the area around Silifke, ancient Seleukia on the Kalykadnos, have been collected in the Cumhuriyet elementary school in Silifke. From 1958 the rooms of the school were used as a museum. In the 1970s, the construction of a separate museum building on the outskirts of the city on Taşucu Caddesi, the D-400 arterial road to Antalya , east of the center, began; construction began on August 2, 1973.
collection
The museum houses two rooms with archaeological finds on two floors, a room on the upper floor for jewelry and coins and an ethnological department on the ground floor. The lower archaeological room contains mainly stone works, statues, steles, a sarcophagus and reliefs, while the upper one is reserved for ceramic and glass artifacts. The excavation finds range from the Neolithic to the Ottoman Empire and come from the vicinity of Silifke. Among the localities include Olba and Diocaesarea ( Uzuncaburç ) that Korykischen Caves (Cennet ve Cehennem) Cambazlı , Aphrodisias in Cilicia (Yesilovacik) Kelenderis ( Aydıncık ) Korasion ( Atakent ) Korykos ( Kızkalesi ) Meydancık Castle and Seleucia (Silifke) itself. The remains of two caryatids come from Meydancıkkale , which belong to a mausoleum from the 6th century, which was found at the foot of the castle hill there. A hoard from the Hellenistic era with over 5000 silver coins came to light on the slope of this mountain in 1980 and can be seen here. These include coins from Alexander the Great and from the time of the Diadochi Seleucus Nikator , Lysimachus , Demetrios and Antigones Gonatas . At the Cilician Aphrodisias, near today's place Yeşilovacık in the district of Silifke, the museum carried out emergency excavations on a group of rock graves under İlhame Öztürk from 2002 because of the extension of the trunk road to Anamur . Grave goods made of stone, glass and especially ceramics were unearthed. In the 1990s, the museum was involved in excavations on the Kilise Tepe settlement near the road to Mut .
In the large museum garden there are architectural fragments, including column capitals and drums, steles, friezes and blocks of inscriptions, from Roman to Islamic times, as well as sarcophagi and pithoi .
literature
- Levent Zoroğlu: Silifke Museum. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Turkey Vol. 1. Turkish Institute of Archeology, Istanbul 2009 ISBN 978-975-807227-9
Web links
- Silifke Müzesi
- Silifke Museum
- Ministry of Culture and Tourism ( Memento of October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 36 ° 22 ′ 25 ″ N , 33 ° 56 ′ 32 ″ E