Adana Archaeology Museum

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Adana Archaeology Museum
Adana Arkeoloji Müzesi
Archeological
Area588,000 sq ft (54,600 m2) in
94 Galleries[1]

Adana Archaeology Museum (

archaeological museums in Turkey.[2]

History

Adana Archaeology Museum was founded in 1919 during the French rule of

medrese
section of the defunct Cafer Pasha Mosque and then opened to the public.

The museum was moved to the building later also occupied by the

Tarsus/Gözlükule (1934), Mersin/Yumuktepe (1936), Ceyhan/Sirkeli (1938) and Yüreğir/Misis (1958) in particular, were collected at the museum which eventually became filled to the brim with the ethnographic items collected by museum director Ali Rıza Yalman (Yalkın) between 1933 and 1940. This was also the only regional museum housing items either through bought or obtained through court orders from an area covering Kahramanmaraş to Gaziantep
. The museum moved to a new city-centre location on January 7, 1972.

However, in the 2010s a new, much larger Adana Museum (Turkish: Adana Müzesi) was created some miles west of the centre in the former Milli Mensucat (National Textile) factory. There it will for a museum complex with a City Museum, Museum of Agriculture, Museum of Industry, Museum of Ethnography, Children's Museum and Mosaic Museum. In 2019 the archaeology section, including a large mosaics area, was opened. Many objects formerly in the garden of the old museum are now indoors and protected from the elements. The space is huge and will expand as more of the old industry is being restored.[1][5]

The Collections

The museum contains many objects from the

Trojan wars in high relief is known as the Achilles sarcophagus. There is also a sarcophagus carved with a Medusa from the ancient city of Augusta which was submerged beneath the Seyhan Dam Reservoir, and a life-sized bronze Karataş statue from the ancient city of Magarsus in Karataş
.

The museum houses the only known inscription mentioning Apollonius of Tyana from 3–4th century CE [6]

Gallery

  • Adana Archaeological Museum Woman figurine Terra cotta Early Bronze Age
    Adana Archaeological Museum Woman figurine Terra cotta Early Bronze Age
  • Adana Archaeological Museum Hittite Masked Human figure
    Adana Archaeological Museum Hittite Masked Human figure
  • Adana Archaeological Museum Late Hittite Tarhunda on chariot
    Adana Archaeological Museum Late Hittite Tarhunda on chariot
  • Adana Archaeological Museum Hittite Anthropomorphic terra cotta jug
    Adana Archaeological Museum Hittite Anthropomorphic terra cotta jug

References

  1. ^ Morgan, Hannah J. (29 January 2000). "Student Diary Travel Accounts". Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
  2. ^ Nedim Dervişoğlu: Das Neue Archäologische Museum von Adana. Von der Textilfabrik zum Fenster in die Geschichte Kilikiens. In: Antike Welt. Nr. 3/2018. Zabern-Verlag, Mainz/Darmstadt 2018, S. 86–89.
  3. ^ Shaw, Wendy. Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. pp. 213–214.
  4. ^ Von Der Osten, Hans. Explorations in Hittite Asia Minor in 1929. p. 45. In the afternoon we visited the small but important museum opened during the French occupation
  5. ^ Sabah, Daily (2017-05-19). "Turkey's largest museum complex unveiled in Adana". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  6. JSTOR 630745
    .

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