Niğde Archaeological Museum

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Niğde Archaeological Museum

Niğde Archaeological Museum (Turkish: 'Niğde Arkeoloji Müzesi') is located in the centre of the Turkish provincial capital, Niğde between Dışarı Cami Sokak and Öğretmenler Caddesi. It contains objects found at sites in the surrounding area, including the tell of Köşk Höyük and the Graeco-Roman city of Tyana, both in the nearby town of Kemerhisar.

History

From the Second World War until 1950, part of the collection of the

Porsuk Hüyük, Kestel, Göllü Dağ, Andaval, Eskigümüş and Kınık Höyük.[1]

Collection

The museum's collection includes material displayed chronologically. Room 1 contains Stone Age artefacts, including obsidian spearpoints and arrowheads from Göllü Dağ, Köşk Höyük, Pınarbaşı Gölü, Kaletepe [de], and other locations, which date back to the 12th millennium BC. A large number of Neolithic and Chalcolithic ceramic objects (6th and 5th millennia BC) are also displayed, most of which come from the excavations at Köşk Höyük. There is also a reconstruction of a house from this settlement.

Room 2 contains objects from the Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) from Göltepe and the Kestel tin mines, as well as Middle Bronze Age pottery from the Assyrian trade colonies at Acemhöyük, near Çamardı.

In Room 3 are stelai and other objects from the

Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions from Porsuk and Veliisa
. The room also holds a pair of Neo-Hittite door lions from Göllü Dağ, as well as pottery, bronzes, and other small objects of the Phrygian period from Porsuk and elsewhere.

Room 4 contains objects from the Greco-Roman period, mostly from Tyana. Among these are inscriptions, statues, reliefs, terracotta and marble sarcophagi, small finds, and pottery. At the entrance to Room 5 is a smaller room with coins from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods.

Rooms 5 and 6 are devoted to mediaeval and modern material. Room 5 contains the mummies of a woman and four children, which were found in the Yılanlı church in the

Ihlara Valley
and date to the 10th century AD. Room 6 has an ethnographic display with books, carpets, weapons, and traditional costumes.

Gallery

  • Reconstruction of a house from Köşk Höyük
    Reconstruction of a house from Köşk Höyük
  • Animal vase from Köşk Höyük
    Animal vase from Köşk Höyük
  • Goddess from Köşk Höyük
    Goddess from Köşk Höyük
  • Pottery from Assyrian colony at Acemhöyük
    Pottery from Assyrian colony at Acemhöyük
  • Luwian inscription from Porsuk
    Luwian inscription from Porsuk
  • Neo-Hittite stele from Niğde
    Neo-Hittite stele from Niğde
  • Neo-Hittite lions from Göllü Dağ
    Neo-Hittite lions from Göllü Dağ
  • Phyrgian bronze cauldron
    Phyrgian bronze cauldron
  • Roman sculpture from Tyana
    Roman sculpture from Tyana
  • Mummy of a Byzantine child from the Ihlara Valley
    Mummy of a Byzantine child from the Ihlara Valley

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