Şanlıurfa Museum

The Archaeological Museum Şanlıurfa (in Turkish Şanlıurfa Muzesi) is the Çamlık Caddesi in the center of the provincial capital of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey. In the museum, archaeological finds of the immediate and wider surroundings of the city, including from Harran and Gobekli Tepe, and from rescue excavations in the wake of the Southeast Anatolia Project are issued.

History

The first plans for an archaeological collection in Şanlıurfa created in 1948, initially the finds were kept in the Atatürk Primary School, from 1956 in the premises of the Şehit - Nüsret Elementary School. Since the available space was not enough, in 1965 started the construction of a museum building. The exhibition covers an area of ​​1500 square meters was opened to visitors in 1969. Later, an extension added yet.

Exhibition

In two storeys and mezzanine floors of exhibition space consists of three halls of Archeology and Ethnography of a. There are also administrative and conference rooms and a library. In the basement, warehouses, workshops and photo lab are housed.

The exhibits come from the references of the environment that are known Harran, the early Neolithic Nevalı Çori and Gobekli Tepe. From the well-known Harran Stele of Nabonidus is seen from Nevalı Çori a fragment with engravings and numerous small finds from Gobekli Tepe represent steles and sculptures various hybrid creatures. Further facilities include reliefs and large sculptures from Hittite archaeological sites of interest, including Gölpınar, Sefali and Kabahaydar, to the collection. Outside of the museum numerous capitals, columns and other architectural fragments of Hittite about Roman to the Islamic period are exhibited. Overall, the museum has 74,000 artifacts.

The museum was involved in several rescue excavations in connection with the construction of the Ataturk dam and the Euphrates barrage Birecik, including Lidar Höyük, Hassek Höyük and the mentioned Nevalı Çori. Since 1995, the museum scientists dig in collaboration with Klaus Schmidt of the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute, the 12,000 year old Gobekli Tepe worship at 15 km north-east of Şanlıurfa from.

Stele of a Hittite weather god from Gölpınar

Stele of Nabonidus Harran

Detail of Nabonidstele

Fragment with carvings from Nevalı Çori

Taurus base Kabahaydar

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