National Museum Damascus
Coordinates: 33 ° 30 ′ 45.3 ″ N , 36 ° 17 ′ 24.2 ″ E
The National Museum of Damascus ( Arabic متحف دمشق الوطني, DMG Matḥaf Dimašq al-waṭanī ) is the most important museum in Syria .
Geographical location
The museum is located in the capital, Damascus .
investment
The elongated, angular building of the archaeological museum is located in a tree-lined garden in the new town center in the west of the old town, surrounded by faculties of the University of Damascus and north of the Tekkiye Mosque. After the collections were started in 1919, the building was constructed in 1936 and expanded in 1956 and 1975.
The museum garden houses dozens of stone evidence from various ancient epochs of Syria, including statues, mosaics, stone doors and a miniature replica of a noria (also naura ), a bucket wheel from Hama . The most important piece of the outdoor exhibition is the original gate of the hunting lodge Qasr al-Heir al-Gharbi , which was built in the Syrian desert in the 8th century by the Umayyad caliphs of Damascus .
collection
Finds from early history, Greco-Roman antiquity and the Islamic Middle Ages are shown in the building. The wall paintings of the Synagogue of Dura Europos are among the most famous exhibits . In addition, be clay tablets with the Ugaritic alphabet as well as the reconstruction of the Hypogeum of Yarhai from Palmyra shown.
literature
- Abul-Faraj al-'Ush; Adnan Joundi; Bachir Zouhdi: Catalog du Musée National de Damas . Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées, Damascus 1969 (1976)
- Thomas Weber: al-Matḥaf al-Waṭanī (Damascus): Sculptures from Roman Syria in the Syrian National Museum at Damascus 1 = From cities and villages in central and southern Syria . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2006. ISBN 978-3-88462-229-2
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Remarks
- ↑ No more was published due to the civil war in Syria .