NAMED IN THESE RECORDS AS THE HOLDER
Istanbul Archaeology Museums
Istanbul
145
records held
24
listed on this page
openly licensed photographs
matched to our catalogue
Several of the objects taken from Jerusalem and Samaria while the region was Ottoman are here rather than in Israel, which is why a reader looking for the Siloam inscription or the Gezer calendar finds them in Istanbul.
145 records are held for this collection and 24 are listed here — the ones its own records tie to something biblical, audited first. The rest are in the research corpus, not on this page.
THE OBJECTS
What we hold for this collection.
Gezer calendar
archaeological artefact; discovered text; linguistic written record · limestone
User:Yoavd (opens in a new tab) GFDL · share-alike
Tenth-century BC Hebrew agricultural calendar.
small limestone tablet with an early Canaanite inscription
CULTURE
archaeological artefact; discovered text; linguistic written record
FINDSPOT
Gezer
MEDIUM
limestone
RECORDED HOLDER
Istanbul Archaeology Museums
ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-049 transcription and dating verification unresolved
What it supports. The Gezer Calendar has a scholarly epigraphic publication history and agricultural interpretation.
What it does not. The accessible record is metadata rather than a checked transcription; language classification and exact date remain debated.
Bears on: Ancient Israel's agricultural setting
Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue
Samaria Ostraca
archaeological artefact
Wikimedia Commons · no author recorded by the source (opens in a new tab) Public domain
Administrative dockets from Israel's northern capital.
hebrew-inscribed ostraca found in Samaria, the capital of ancient Israel
CULTURE
archaeological artefact
RECORDED HOLDER
Istanbul Archaeology Museums
ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-045 administrative corpus confirmed
What it supports. Harvard excavations recovered administrative Hebrew ostraca at Samaria in 1910.
What it does not. The discoverer's early discussion is not a complete modern edition; the reign and clan identifications need individual texts and later scholarship.
Bears on: 1 Kings 16; Amos 6
Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue
Siloam inscription
discovered text; inscription
Rakoon (opens in a new tab) CC0
Records the cutting of Hezekiah's tunnel, beside 2 Kings 20 and 2 Chronicles 32.
Hebrew inscription
CULTURE
discovered text; inscription
FINDSPOT
Hezekiah's Tunnel
RECORDED HOLDER
Istanbul Archaeology Museums
ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-041 dated structure; royal attribution interpretive
What it supports. Radiocarbon and U-Th measurements support an Iron Age II date for the Siloam Tunnel.
What it does not. Assigning its construction to Hezekiah combines dating, structure identification and biblical interpretation; the tunnel inscription does not name him.
Bears on: 2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:30
Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue
Temple Warning inscription
archaeological artefact; discovered text
oncenawhile (opens in a new tab) CC BY-SA 3.0 · share-alike
Greek inscription forbidding gentiles to pass the temple barrier, beside Acts 21.
Ancient Second Temple inscription
CULTURE
archaeological artefact; discovered text
RECORDED HOLDER
Istanbul Archaeology Museums
ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-075 temple access-rule context
What it supports. The museum catalog identifies the ancient Greek Temple Warning inscription and explains its exclusion warning.
What it does not. BM C.328 is a modern cast; the original is Istanbul 2196T. The text documents a rule rather than an individual Acts episode.
Bears on: Acts 21:27-29; Ephesians 2:14 background
Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue
ACT 0002
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0002
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0127
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
ACT 0103
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0103
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0178
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
ACT 0105
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0105
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0117
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
ACT 0106
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0106
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0120 + 0138
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
ACT 0107
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0107
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0139
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
ACT 0108
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0108
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0113
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
ACT 0109
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0109
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0145
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
ACT 0110
Hellenistic · Hellenistic · tablet
ACT 0110
DATE
Hellenistic
PERIOD
Hellenistic
FINDSPOT
Uruk
MEDIUM
tablet
MUSEUM NUMBER
Ist Uruk 0180,20
RECORDED HOLDER
Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
A place-name match in the museum's text — a search hit, not an identification
Named in the record: uruk
Records and photographs are the museums' and archives' own, used under the licences each one states. A record here is a record, not an endorsement of any reading of the object.
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