Adıyaman Archaeological Museum

Adıyaman Archaeological Museum (Turkish: Turkish: Adıyaman Müzesi) is an archaeology museum in Adıyaman, southeastern Turkey. It is located at the corner of Atatürk Boulevard and Cumhuriyet Avenue in the heart of the city. The museum displays archaeological finds from the area around the city, as well as from rescue excavations carried out in the course of the Southeastern Anatolia Project. History Votive relief of Jupiter Dolichenus from the necropolis of Perrhe. When planning began on the Southeastern Anatolia Project at the end of the 1970s, rescue excavations were initiated at many sites in the Euphrates basin around Adıyaman, since many archaeological find spots were threatened by the planned construction of hydroelectric dams . From 1978 on, finds from these excavations were stored in the buildings of the city library. The present museum building was completed in 1982, at which point Emin Yener became its first director. The museum participated in the rescue excavations of the. Exhibition buildings Stela of the Hittite weather god. The one-story museum building contains an archive, photo-lab and work area in the basement. Part of the ground floor contains administrative offices, the rest consists of two exhibition halls and a linking room. Among the items on display are Palaeolithic tools, Neolithic arrowheads, pottery from the Copper Age , spearpoints, cooking utensils and jewellery from the Bronze and Iron Ages , as well as items from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as statues, mosaics and vessels of stone, ceramics and glass. In the basement, there are.