MİLET MUSEUM - MİLETOS AND PRİENE WORKS ARE EXHİBİTED İN THİS MUSEUM - #museum #milet SÖKE / AYDIN
Published at : January 28, 2023
The Miletus Museum Directorate is located in the Ancient City of Miletus, which is located near the Balat Village in the Didim District of Aydın Province. The static structure of the Museum Building, which was put into service in 1973, deteriorated over time. Due to the danger of this situation in terms of life and property safety, it was closed to visitors.
After the closure of the old Museum Building, the works for the construction of the new Museum Building were started and the new museum building with a usage area of 1200 square meters was opened to visitors in May 2011.
Miletus Museum exhibition areas; It consists of two main parts: garden display and indoor display. In the garden display, lion statues, inscriptions, tomb steles, sarcophagi, architectural elements and column capitals, which are the symbols of Miletus, are exhibited.
Indoor exhibition area The museum is located in the administrative building. The finds of Miletus Ancient City, Priene Ancient City and Didim Apollon Temple are exhibited in an area of approximately 600 m2. It belongs to the ancient city of Miletus; Revival Minoan Period (20th-15th century BC) Cuisine, Minoan Period finds, Zeytintepe Archaic Aphrodite Sanctuary finds, Gacartepe Grave finds. The finds of the Sacred Way from the Ancient City of Miletus to the Temple of Apollo in Didim and the votive items of the Temple of Apollo are located in the exhibition hall.
Known as the Pompeii of Anatolia, the ancient city of Priene, especially its rich houses, is in the Priene section. Coins from various periods, ornaments, glass fragrance bottles, bronze items and figurines, terracotta items and figurines, and İlyas Bey Mosque finds dating to the Menteşeoğulları Principality are among the exhibits in the interior showcases. In addition, tomb steles from the Archaic period and an unfinished sculpture group are in the exhibition space. Miletus Museum is an exemplary museum technically, visually and scientifically.
LEGENDS REGARDING THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF MILETOS
Although the legends of the distant past should be viewed with suspicion, Pausanias makes an important account of the origin of the Mi-Ictians (Paus 7.2.5). “During the reign of Anax, an Indian, and for the next two generations, their lands were called Anaktoria. When Miletos came with the Cretan army, he changed both the name of the region and the name of the city to Ailetos. Miletus and his men came from Giril, fleeing from Europa's son Minos. The Carians, the former owners of these lands, unite with the Cretans in order to continue”.
In another version told by Pausanias, Kodros' sons Neleus and Medon got into a fight for the throne and Neleus, who had to leave Athens, set out for the Western Anatolian coast and founded Miletos for himself (Pausanias 7.2. 1- 4). These transfers. Although not proven, these are just some of the few oral accounts we have regarding the establishment of Miletos.
CITY HISTORY
With the abandonment of the Archaic Acropolis after the Persian invasion in 494 BC, the Hellenistic City began to take shape around Aslanlı Harbor and the theatre. During the Roman period, the size and shape of the Hellenistic period city is preserved, but there is a great increase in development activities. Faustina Bath, Humei Tepe Bath, theatre, port monument, harbor gate, Capito Bath, gymnasium, South Agora gate, west agora.stadium, warehouse structures are important public buildings dating to the Roman Period.
The city began to lose its feature of being an important port city in this period as a result of the fact that the Büyük Menderes River started to fill with alluvium. Miletos turns into a Diocese since 5378 AD, and the city gets smaller and smaller and is limited to the theater and the castle. Miletos, which took the name Palatia in the Byzantine Period, came under the domination of the Turks in the 13th century, and was called the Principalities and Balat in the Ottoman period.
CAPITAL OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART
The advancement of ancient Greek civilization in science began through the Miletos school. Anaximenes of Miletos tried to explain existence, Anaximandros carved the universal laws that are not based on gods on stones, Hekataios showed superiority in the geography and wrote his name in history as the first person to draw the world map.
Thales, considered the father of philosophy, learned to calculate solar eclipses after his visit to Egypt. Thales also paved the way for the concept of the atom, arguing that matter consists of a few basic components.
After the closure of the old Museum Building, the works for the construction of the new Museum Building were started and the new museum building with a usage area of 1200 square meters was opened to visitors in May 2011.
Miletus Museum exhibition areas; It consists of two main parts: garden display and indoor display. In the garden display, lion statues, inscriptions, tomb steles, sarcophagi, architectural elements and column capitals, which are the symbols of Miletus, are exhibited.
Indoor exhibition area The museum is located in the administrative building. The finds of Miletus Ancient City, Priene Ancient City and Didim Apollon Temple are exhibited in an area of approximately 600 m2. It belongs to the ancient city of Miletus; Revival Minoan Period (20th-15th century BC) Cuisine, Minoan Period finds, Zeytintepe Archaic Aphrodite Sanctuary finds, Gacartepe Grave finds. The finds of the Sacred Way from the Ancient City of Miletus to the Temple of Apollo in Didim and the votive items of the Temple of Apollo are located in the exhibition hall.
Known as the Pompeii of Anatolia, the ancient city of Priene, especially its rich houses, is in the Priene section. Coins from various periods, ornaments, glass fragrance bottles, bronze items and figurines, terracotta items and figurines, and İlyas Bey Mosque finds dating to the Menteşeoğulları Principality are among the exhibits in the interior showcases. In addition, tomb steles from the Archaic period and an unfinished sculpture group are in the exhibition space. Miletus Museum is an exemplary museum technically, visually and scientifically.
LEGENDS REGARDING THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF MILETOS
Although the legends of the distant past should be viewed with suspicion, Pausanias makes an important account of the origin of the Mi-Ictians (Paus 7.2.5). “During the reign of Anax, an Indian, and for the next two generations, their lands were called Anaktoria. When Miletos came with the Cretan army, he changed both the name of the region and the name of the city to Ailetos. Miletus and his men came from Giril, fleeing from Europa's son Minos. The Carians, the former owners of these lands, unite with the Cretans in order to continue”.
In another version told by Pausanias, Kodros' sons Neleus and Medon got into a fight for the throne and Neleus, who had to leave Athens, set out for the Western Anatolian coast and founded Miletos for himself (Pausanias 7.2. 1- 4). These transfers. Although not proven, these are just some of the few oral accounts we have regarding the establishment of Miletos.
CITY HISTORY
With the abandonment of the Archaic Acropolis after the Persian invasion in 494 BC, the Hellenistic City began to take shape around Aslanlı Harbor and the theatre. During the Roman period, the size and shape of the Hellenistic period city is preserved, but there is a great increase in development activities. Faustina Bath, Humei Tepe Bath, theatre, port monument, harbor gate, Capito Bath, gymnasium, South Agora gate, west agora.stadium, warehouse structures are important public buildings dating to the Roman Period.
The city began to lose its feature of being an important port city in this period as a result of the fact that the Büyük Menderes River started to fill with alluvium. Miletos turns into a Diocese since 5378 AD, and the city gets smaller and smaller and is limited to the theater and the castle. Miletos, which took the name Palatia in the Byzantine Period, came under the domination of the Turks in the 13th century, and was called the Principalities and Balat in the Ottoman period.
CAPITAL OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART
The advancement of ancient Greek civilization in science began through the Miletos school. Anaximenes of Miletos tried to explain existence, Anaximandros carved the universal laws that are not based on gods on stones, Hekataios showed superiority in the geography and wrote his name in history as the first person to draw the world map.
Thales, considered the father of philosophy, learned to calculate solar eclipses after his visit to Egypt. Thales also paved the way for the concept of the atom, arguing that matter consists of a few basic components.
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