page_title: Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum
section_title: Exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum / Exhibits
caption_attribution_description: English: Ancient Roman (2nd century AD) sarcophagus of Apamea (Phrygia), today Dinar, at Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
context_page_description: The Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum, also known as the Afyon Museum, is an archaeological museum in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. It exhibits a wide variety of artifacts from the Copper Age, Bronze Age and the civilizations of Hittites, Phrygians, Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire.
context_section_description: The time span of the museum exhibits reach around 5000 years from the Bronze Age until today. The artifacts are from the Chalcolithic Age, Bronze Age and the civilizations of Hittites, Phrygians, Ancient Greece and Byzantine Empire collected from excavations at around 40 tumuli and 20 ancient cities in the region. Various sculptures, architectural elements, large earthenware, steles, sarcophagi as well as gravestones from the Seljuk and Ottoman Era are also on display in the big backyard of the museum. Its coin collection, well-preserved statues of Ancient Greek deities and cutting and lethal tools enhances the importance of the museum. The archaeological items exhibited in the building are organized in chronological order. Many Turkish-Islamic items can not be displayed due to insufficient space in the museum building.
  Currently, the museum owns a total of 44,383 objects, including 13,276 archaeological, 4,484 ethnographical, 26,252 coins, 26 archive documents and 33 hand-written books.
caption: Ancient Roman (2nd century AD) sarcophagus of Apamea (Phrygia), today Dinar.
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