Antioch, Museum

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A very large museum with many mosaics and some sculpture, including a splendid sarcophagus. When I visited the place for the last time, parts of the museum were closed because it was moving to another location in a different part of the city. There's a room with Assyrian objects and there are medieval finds, but most of it is Hellenistic and especially Roman.

It may be noted that the museum was built on the place where the Crusaders made their famous sortie from besieged Antioch.

There are 39 items in Antioch, Museum:

Tarsus, Mosaic of Ganymede	Antioch, Aristotelian philosophical institute	Antioch, Mosaic of the hippodrome	Antioch, Mosaic of Heracles strangling two snakes
Pertinax	Antioch, Mosaic of an Amazonomachy	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Front
Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Short side: the two deceased, pooring a libation	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Front: the two deceased, flanking Apollo	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, detail: child and panther	Antioch, Sidemara sarcophagus, Short side: the deceased woman and her sons?

This museum was visited in 2004, 2007, 2011