Museum of Deir ez-Zor
Coordinates: 35 ° 20 '27.6 " N , 40 ° 7' 58.8" E
The Deir ez-Zor Museum ( Arabic متحف دير الزور, DMG Matḥaf Dair az-Zaur ) is a museum dedicated to the archeology and history of al-Jazeera . It is located in Deir ez-Zor , the capital of the governorate of the same name in Syria . When it was founded in 1974, it was housed in the gallery of a shopping mall, and in 1983 it was moved to a courthouse built in 1930. In 1996 it was moved to its own building, in which it is still located today. This building was created in a Syrian-German joint project.
This building has around 1600 m² of exhibition space, which is arranged in several halls around a courtyard. His collection, which began with 140 objects as gifts from the National Museum Damascus , now consists of around 25,000 objects, including the majority of clay tablets from Mari . There are also finds from the upper Habur triangle of Tell Beydar , Tell Brak , Tell Leilan , Tell Mozan and Tell Schech Hamad . Finds from classical antiquity come from the former Roman border town of Dura Europos from the part of the Euphrates Valley south of Deir ez-Zor .
The collection is divided into five subject areas:
- prehistory
- Ancient Syria (late Chalcolithic to 1st millennium BC)
- classic antiquity
- islamic history
- Ethnology .
In the museum there are some reconstructions of various buildings in assumed original size , including a house from the PPNB site of Bouqras on the Euphrates, the early Bronze Age city gate of Tell Bderi on the Habur, the southern facade of the so-called "palm courtyard" from the palace of Zimri-Lim in Mari as well as the gate of the Ummayad palace Qasr al-Heir al-Sharki from the 8th century.
Individual evidence
- ^ Syrian Digital Library of Cuneiform: Deir ez-Zor Museum
- ↑ a b c Dominik Bonatz, Hartmut Kühne , As'ad Mahmoud: Rivers and steppes: Cultural heritage and environment of the Syrian Jezireh. Catalog to the Museum of Deir ez-Zor. Ministry of Culture, Damascus 1998
