I had been under the impression that these were found in an
excavation rather than just a mini-replica for display.

Does anyone know? If so, please comment below. Thanks.

Very human expressions, 3rd BC, on the faces around the odder face-mask.
And that top middle-right one speaks to the inner me :-)

The sun was setting, but we were told, at Adiyaman Museum,
of more recent excavations in this area, and we checked it
out before end of day.

Cracking the branch with those goats

Never 'discovered' the West side, alas.
Took a sign that forbade access (climbing tumulus) for one that forbade further entry.

For a good aerial perspective of where we were and the road to that spot,
see this photo at the very informative site which offers other photos from that rather stunning site.

Don't miss this historical mpeg video on the discovery of the site.

The holes in the tops of the heads (more visible in other pictures) indicated these were used with
something that would allow them to hoist these into their positions.

Reminded me a bit of a weathered Rodin's The Thinker.  Here's another one
plus this amazing one.  Philadelphia museum has an article on acid-rain effects on The Thinker.

Several websites, even within their own sites, disagree on which is meant to be Apollo
and which is to be Antiochus I, so consider those two IDs in question right now...

Here is a website with 3-D video (also seen as text info),
which shows clearly that the heads have been moved around.  But the webauthor gives
the sequence of the statues as they would have been on the chairs.

Antiochos I claimed that his mother (Laodike) was a descendent of Alexander the Great and that his
father (Mithridates) descended from Darius I.  Per the site linked above, "Professor K. Dorner
{who did restoration work on Mt. Nemrut} has traced the genealogy of Antiochos ..."

... with no teeth or claws (that I can see) but I'd still beware ! :-)

On the ones with large rocks, with loose pebbles on them, I was too busy trying to balance, to
try to take photos.   The clouds indicate the cold winds slowing us going up.

The cafe was below the entrance at the top. We rode a very rocky road
in a hardy car with no shocks, belonging to the cafe owner.

This was after the Menamen omelette, our reward for doing Mt. Nemrut.

Or, I should say, Mt. Nemrut doing us in. The steps there are often large, loose
boulders with many loose pebbles on top.

  We noted that a young German couple expressed fatigue half-way up.

No elevators, and the height of each stair is rather high
(not apparent here), a bit arduous following Mt. Nemrut that day [whine] :-)
  We had empathy for the hotel guys bringing up our very heavy suitcases.

In the 1500s this was a popular stop for the traders and camels.

It's now popular as a night spot for dinner and entertainment for locals,
while having about 120 small and uncomfortable rooms for us caravan visitors.

That's literally (in some cases, 100 lbs ) and figuratively.
Diyarbakir has an annual watermelon festival in September.
  With over a million residents, this is the largest city of Eastern Turkey.

The black basalt walls of this ancient city are the 2nd largest and best
preserved after China's.   These are triple in depth at some points.
  That's a main street below at right. I get vertigo looking at that.

The walls surround the city and are about 5.5 kilometers (or 3.4 miles) long.