Yalvaç Museum Photo Collection

Description: The Yalvaç Museum was established in 1947 when archaeological and historical remains from Yalvaç, the surrounding Pisidian Region, and the nearby archaeological sites—Antioch in Pisidia (alternatively Antiochia in Pisidia or Pisidian Antioch or Antiochia in Phrygia)—were collected and stored. However, these materials remained in a warehouse for two decades until a museum could be constructed. Thus, the Yalvaç Museum did not officially opened its doors until 1966.

The museum consists of two main spaces—the garden exhibition and the indoor galleries. The interior spaces are organized chronologically in three main halls and host artifacts from prehistoric fossils through the Ottoman period.

The first of the halls contains prehistoric materials and Bronze Age finds—such as rhytons, vases, and water jugs—from nearby Bronze Age excavations like the Çamharman (Köstük) Tumulus. The largest of the interior galleries is dedicated to classical works from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods. This hall displays materials ranging from earthenware cooking vessels to marble sculptures of the Antiocheia school to fine Byzantine Jewelry. An additional smaller hall, the Ethnography Hall, displays Ottoman artifacts from Yalvaç arranged as if in a house from the 18th century.

The gardens to the rear and side of the museum host an array or stone sculptures, inscriptions, sarcophagi, stelae, and votives predominantly from the neighboring site of Antioch in Pisidia. The materials in the gardens range in time from the Hellenistic to Ottoman periods and include a Roman frieze from the Temple of Augustus and an inscribed pillar of Tiberius. (Yalvaç Museum)

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