Big open-air temple built for Eshmun god of hygiene
Istanbul Archaeology Museums, TurkeyA Phoenician city state in the Eastern Mediterranean coast.
The city developing and becoming powerful as a result of being a neighbor city to Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia (10th-8th centuries B.C.)
Advantageous position from the military and commercial points of view, the city retaining its importance also during the Persian, Greek and Roman periods its being one of the centres exporting glass and glass objects produced in Phoenicia to the western world.
A big open-air temple built for the patron god of Sidon, the Phoenician god of hygiene, Eshmun, in 525 B.C.
Famous and rich fruit orchards and flower gardens.
Excavations of the city of Sidon and Environs
1886-1887, Osman Hamdi Bey excavations: finding of the sarcophagi, dated to the 6th-4th centuries B.C., in he necropolis (cemetery) of the city, during the excavations for the Istanbul Ottoman Imperial Museum (like Alexander Sarcophagus, Satrap Sarcophagus, Lycian Sarcophagus, Tabrit Sarcophagus, Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women)
Numerous anthropoid (human shaped) sarcophagi of marble, the most orinal productions of the Phoenician tomb art, found in the necropolis and the environs
The opening of the first Turkish Museum built in Istanbul for the sarcophagi found in the necropolis of Sidon (1891)
1901-1905, Theodor Makridi excavations: Eshmun Temple, Halaliye, Foka Fortress and Baramiye excavations carried out in the necropolis and the environs of the city of Sidon.
(Because the Sidon necropolis finds resulted in the construction and the opening of the first Turkish Museum, the original display of the sarcophagi in the old museum has been preserved and not changed. Therefore only the finds found in the excavations carried out in the environs during the years 1901-1905 by Theodor Makridi are displayed in this hall.)
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A big open-air temple built for Eshmun god of hygiene
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