21 October 2020 – 30 March 2025
Rezan Has Museum
“Archaeology of Daily Life”
6500 B.C.-1300 A.D.
The “Archaeology of Daily Life” exhibition invites its visitors to a colorful historical journey from the shores of the Golden Horn to Anatolia and surrounding civilizations, starting from October 21.
Anatolian geography has hosted many important changes and transformations in the long history of humanity, and the effects of the cultures formed here have spread and inspired civilizations in different regions. To this process of change and transformation that has continued from the Neolithic Age to the present day; We look at it based on man’s struggle for life against nature, his daily habits, social relations and beliefs. For this purpose, he investigates settlements, temples, cemeteries, semi-nomadic habitats and the natural environment; We try to understand their language and interpret the adventure of humanity, that is, history, with the help of the findings unearthed there. The most important witnesses of this process, with all its dynamics as well as the ordinariness and routine of daily life, are undoubtedly human-made daily tools.
The “Archaeology of Daily Life” exhibition, which opens the door to the past, was designed by carefully selecting from our collection spanning from the Neolithic Period to the Seljuks. The exhibition is a continuation of the “Heritage of the Earth” exhibition; With a wink at the “Whispers of Extinct Languages” exhibition, it contains traces of the Anatolian culture that has developed and changed throughout history through the objects that shape our daily lives, along with works that show the development of language and writing, the most important means of communication in daily life.
The works included in the exhibition, which are sometimes described as “very different” and seem to be lost, are reflections of traditions, habits, attitudes and culture; Even though many things seem to have changed and developed, our basic issue that has been going on for ages is very similar; It reminds us, silently and simply, that our joy, our worries, our fear of the unknown, and our curiosity for “beautification” remain essentially the same.
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- Triple Hekate Figurine, Marble, Roman Period, 1st century BCE – 4th century AD
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- Votive Vase, Marble, 3rd Ur Dynasty of Ur-Nammu Period, 2212 BCE – 2095 BCE
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- Car Model, Terracotta, Early Bronze Age, 3500 BCE – 2000 BCE, West Anatolia
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- Oil Lamp Hanger with Inscription, Bronze, Byzantian Period, 11th century AD
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- Cross Necklace, Gold-Cornelian-Glass, Early Byzantian Period, 5th – 6th centuries AD
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- Brush Handle, Terracotta, Early Bronze Age, 3500 BCE – 2000 BCE
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- Eye Idol, Marble, Late Chalcolithic Age, 4000 BCE – 3500 BCE
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- Quadruple God Figurine, Bronze, Hittites Period, 1450 BCE – 1190 BCE
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- Temple Model, Terracotta, End of the Early Bronze Age-Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, 2500 BCE – 1750 BCE
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- Pectoral, Bronze, Urartian Period, 8th – 7th centuries BCE
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- Medium Width Belt with Hunting Scene, Bronze, Urartian Period, 7th century BCE
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- Engraved Terracotta Brick with Assyrian Cuneiform Inscription, King of Assyria Sanherib Period, 705 BCE – 681 BCE “For his lord (god) Nergal (2) the king of Assyria has (re)built the temple of Sanherib E.GAL.LAM.MES in the city of Tarbishu (3) from its foundation to its bastions.”
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- Mask, Terracotta, Greek-Hellenistic Period, 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
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