Fethiye Müzesi

This guide to Fethiye Müzesi starts at its locked gate, closed for earthquake reinforcement, and traces how the collection began: rubble from the 1957 quake that leveled ancient Telmessos, gathered into a harbor storehouse before this building opened in 1987. It follows a four-sided inscribed stone found at Letoon in 1973, carved in three ancient alphabets side by side, and the question of what scholars were finally able to make of it. Steel props now hold up the same walls that once held up an unreadable language.