There are plenty of other things to see in the Istanbul Museum besides sarcophagi. There are massive column heads, this one is Ionic…
There are interesting bas relief on stone, like this one with women riding horses…
There are cupid like figures preparing their roosters for a cockfight…
We have incredibly decorated columns….
We have grave steles which would have been erected by mausoleums, presumably this sailor died at sea, and perhaps his body was not recovered so the family simply erected a stele to his memory…
This one speaks for itself. Women often died in childbirth in antiquity…
Compare the sarcophagus relief…
Or how about a really ugly deity statue…
There is a reminder of what the great temple of Zeus used to look like in Pergamon before the Germans carted it off to Pergamon and made a whole museum for it…
We have one proconsul of Ephesus statue from the 2nd century A.D.
We have both a Karyatid and the goddess Tyche… statues
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