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Afyon Archaeological Museum (Arkeoloji Müzesi)
By Turkey
Feb 5, 2007, 06:49

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Afyon Archaeological Museum (Arkeoloji Müzesi)

 

Today Afyon Archaeological Museum consists of 9 large and small rooms, 1 library, 1 conference hall, 1 laboratory, storerooms and administrative offices. The objects exhibited in the museum come from provinces near Afyon such as Burdur, Kutahya, Usak, Isparta, Kusura, Yazilkaya, and Hacilar. These objects date from Neolithic, Early Hittite, Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. Generally the works are exhibited as follows:

First Room - Small statues from the Byzantine period, bas-reliefs and urns;
Second Room - Statuettes, stones and offering stones from the Roman period;
Third Room -A collection of pre-historical weapons, idols, figurines and ceramics;
Fourth Room - A collection of pre-historical "Kusura ceramics";
Fifth Room - Various objects from the Phrygian period;
Sixth Room - Coins and medallions;
Seventh Room - Earthenware figures, glass objects;
Eighth Room - Various Roman objects and lamps;
Ninth Room - Statues and cult sarcophagi from the Roman period.

There is also a hall in which works from the Turkish-Islam period are on exhibit.
Outside, on the right hand side of the garden there are large Roman statues and Roman-Byzantine sarcophagi. On the left hand side, there are sacrificial altar stones, gravestones, and pedestals of statues, Greek and Latin inscriptions, small statues, bas-reliefs and building stones. In the covered gallery there are Antioch Roman period "Victory Arch" bas-reliefs, a price list from an agora (Roman market place), the Synnada sarcophagus, gravestones, various inscriptions, bas-reliefs, marble urns, earthenware sarcophagi, and several pieces from sarcophagi.


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