This monument which is within the Necropolis is thought to have been erected in the name of Nikokreon, the last king of Salamis. It is stated that Nikokreon chose to commit suicide rather than surrender to Ptolemaios. Before killing himself, he killed his wife and family, and set fire to the palace. In the middle of the platform that can be reached by climbing a set of echeloned steps, there is a kiln in which iron bars and statues made of stone and clay belonging to that era were found. The statues made of half baked clay have the characteristics of the late Classical Greek sculpt
It is a two-storey building with a rectangular plan, located in the courtyard of the Venetian Palace to the west of Namık Kemal Square. The door of the single cell opens to the courtyard of the Venetian Palace. There is a nave in front of the rectangular planned room on the upper floor. Namık Kemal was exiled to Cyprus on April 9, 1873, after the play "Homeland or Silistre" was performed at the Istanbul Gedik Pasha Theater on April 5, 1873. The poet, who was initially locked in the dungeon on the lower floor, was later taken to the upper floor with the permission of the Governor of Cyprus, Veyis Pasha. On June 3, 1876, he was pardoned by Murat V and returned to Istanbul. The restoration and landscaping works of the "Namık Kemal Prison and Museum" were carried out by the Surveying and Restoration Branch of the Department of Antiquities and Museums in 1993 and opened to visit