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 THE
ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF ÇEŞME |
One of the historical
and cultural values of Çeşme District worth seeing
is the Çeşme Fort. Çeşme Fort has been
constructed in 1508, during the period of Beyazıt
II. It has been had constructed by Aydın Governor
Mir Haydar to Architect Ahmet oğlu Mehmet.
Çeşme Archeology museum is located in the fort,
which reached today being preserved in a very good
way. Çeşme museum has been opened to visit for the
first time in 1965 as a gun museum with the guns
brought from İstanbul Topkapı Museum and continued
its function in this way until 1984. Since the guns
in the museum have been oxidized and begun to deform
due to the excess humidity in the hall, they have
been transferred to İzmir Archeology and Ödemiş
Museums. The same exhibition hall has been arranged
and used for the exhibition of the works obtained
from the rescue excavations made in Ildırı (Erythrai)
archaic city, which have been continuing since 1964.
God and goddess sculptures made of cooked earth,
busts, marble sculptures, silver and bronze coins,
golden frames, amphora are being exhibited. |
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| Most important of
the visible ruins in Ildırı (Erythrai)
is the city walls. Besides this, acropolis and the
theatre in north of it and the villa buildings
found in the excavations made in the north of the
acropolis, Athena temple belonging to the Archaic
Period, the church constructed in Byzantine period,
Roman villa and mosaics at the location called as
Cennettepe, the bath building constructed in Late
- Roman - Byzantine Period can be seen. The
visitors can visit the military and civil
buildings found as the result of the excavations
and researches carried out in Ildırı (Erythrai)
archaic city, against no charge. |
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