Antakya Archaeological Museum

Antioch was an important Roman city, a cross-roads and trading center, and the archaeological museum contains a great number of very large mosaics and other artifacts. In general, we felt the quality/intactness of the mosaics did not approach what we saw in Gaziantep, but the collection still was impressive.

They were really big on sarcophogi in this part of the world

One of the more intact specimens

Eros and Psyche

"Who ordered the two pretzels deluxe?"

River god and wife, again

Animal music lovers

Some very large specimens

Closer up

At this point the museum was over-run by 2 bus-loads of

older guys, all wearing grey pants, blue blazers, white shirts,

nice striped ties, and military decorations; turns out there

was a convention of local leaders of Turkish veterans'

associations meeting in Antakya, doing some of the same

sites we did; two of them had served in the Korean War

Hittite lions

Spare parts garden