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Archaeological Museum

We visited one of several locations of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. This contained mostly artefacts from the Byzantine period of the city. A large part of the exhibition consists of floor mosaic from the period of Constantine I (280-337), during the time when the Roman Empire included most of Turkey and beyond.


The mosaic depicts daily rural life of the period. Also, the exhibition contains a multitude of Roman statues and murals. The mosaic is made of small cubes, with a density of up to 40 000 cubes per m2. These small pieces makes it possible to make drawings with great detail-

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Entrance gate to the exhibition we visted

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Daily life with livestock, a banana tree, a man, and a woman

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Livestock, and a man milking a goat

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

A boy herding two geese

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Mythical animal having caught a lizard

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Two boys, one with a small dog

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Livestock of many kinds

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

A lion attacking an elephant

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Two men with spears attacking a tiger

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

The head of Zeus up in the corner?

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Decorated pillar I

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

The same pattern is found on a pillar in the Basilica Cistern

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Battle scenes

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Sarcophagus

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

The decorated side of the sarcophagus

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Battle with horses I

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Battle with horses II

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Another sarcophagus showing grieving woman

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Winged women from the mythology

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Statue of a man

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Statue of a woman

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Statues of two women

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Busts of two women

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Bust of Alexander the Great

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Bust of a woman poet

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Bust of a man

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Sea creatures in the human form I

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Sea creatures in the human form II

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

My wife Sonja with Alexander the Great

Archaeological Museum

Archaeological Museum

Bust of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk who in founded the Turkish Republic