Silifke Museum

The Archaeological Museum Silifke ( Turkish name: Silifke Muzesi) is a museum in the southern Turkish city in the province of Mersin Silifke in ancient Cilicia.

History

Since the late 1940s were in Silifke in the Cumhuriyet Primary School archaeological finds from the vicinity of Silifke, the ancient Seleucia on Calycadnus collected. From 1958 rooms of the school were used as a museum. In the 1970s, the construction of a new museum building was started on the outskirts of the Taşucu Caddesi, leading to Antalya arterial road D-400, east of the center, on 2 August 1973, the building was opened.

Collection

The museum houses two floors of two rooms with archaeological finds, a room upstairs for jewelry and coins as well as on the ground floor an ethnological Department. The lower archaeological area contains mainly the works of stone, statues, stelae, and a sarcophagus reliefs, while the upper one is the artifacts of ceramic and glass reserved. The archaeological finds ranging from the Neolithic to the Ottoman Empire and come from the vicinity Silifkes. Among the localities belong olba and Diocaesarea ( Uzuncaburç ), the Korykischen caves ( Acanthus ve Cehennem ) Cambazli, Aphrodisias in Cilicia ( Yesilovacik ) Kelenderis ( Aydıncık ) Korasion ( Atakent ) Korykos ( Kızkalesi ) Meydancıkkale and Seleucia ( Silifke ) itself from Meydancıkkale the remains of two caryatids that belong to a mausoleum dating from the 6th century, which was found at the foot of the castle hill there come. On the slopes of this mountain came in 1980 a refuge from the Hellenistic period, with over 5000 silver coins to days, which can be seen here. Among these are coins of Alexander the Great, and from the time of Seleucus Nicator Diadochi, Lysimachus, Demetrius and Antigone Gonatas. When Cilician Aphrodisias, near the present site Yesilovacik district Silifke, led the museum from 2002 due to the extension of the trunk road to Anamur under Ilhame Öztürk rescue excavations on a group of rock-cut tombs through. This grave goods excavated from stone, glass and ceramics in particular.

The large museum garden find architectural fragments, including column capitals and drums, steles, Fries parts and inscription blocks from the Roman to the Islamic period as well as sarcophagi and pithoi.