Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum
| Şanlıurfa Arkeoloji ve Mozaik Müzesi | |
 From Göbeklitepe excavations | |
  Anamur Museum | |
| Established | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Location | Haleplibahçe caddesi, Şanlıurfa, Turkey |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 37°09′13″N 38°46′54″E / 37.15361°N 38.78167°E |
| Type | Archaeology, Mosaic, Ethnography |
| Collections | Neolithic, Chalcolithic Bronze age Hittite Assyria, Babylonia |
| Owner | Ministry of Culture and Tourism |
Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum is a museum in Şanlıurfa (also known as Urfa), Turkey. Şanlıurfa (Edessa of the antiquity) is an old city. Ruins of Harran, 44 kilometres (27 mi) south east of Şanlıurfa was also an old city. In addition to remains in Şanlıurfa and Harran, the ruins found in the hydroelectric dam reservoirs of Atatürk Dam, Birecik Dam and Karkamış Dam also contribute to museum.
The location history and the building
The museum is on Haleplibahçe street and close to Balıklıgöl, a sacret pool.[1]It is at 37°09′13″N 38°46′54″E / 37.15361°N 38.78167°E.
The museum was opened in 2015 and replaced the former museum of Şanlıurfa was on Çamlık street. With a closed area of 34,000 square metres (370,000 sq ft) it is one of the biggest museums of Turkey. [2] It actually consists of two major sections. The section to the north is the mosaic museum and the section o the south is the archaeology section. This section is actually a three storey building. In addition to exhibition halls there are offices, a museum lab, a library, restaurants, markets and a play ground for kids.
The mosaic section
The mosaic of Orpheus was created in 184 A.D. in Edessa. It was found in 1980 and was taken away to United States by illegal means. After some handovers it returned to its birthplace from the Dallas Museum in 2015. [3]
The archaeology section
In the ground and upper floor there are four exhibition halls. The first exhibition hall is reserved for Assyria, Babylonia and Hittite artifacts. In the second and third halls Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze age items such as stone tools, terracota ceramic tools, stamps, pithoi, neclaces, figurines, metallic tools, ornaments, idols etc are exhibited. [4] One of the most important items is a 9500 years-old man sculpture which is known as the first life size human sculpture in the history [2] In the ethnographic section, clothes, silver and bronze ornamnets, handworks, doors with epitaph, examples of caligrahy, hand written Korans are exhibited. In the yard there are various archaeologic items.[4]
References
- ↑ Archaeology page (Turkish)
- 1 2 Actual archaeology page (Turkish)
- ↑ Archaeology news (Turkish)
- 1 2 Museum page (Turkish)
