A Guide to the Archaeological Collections in the University Museum: (American University of Beirut) |
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alabaster amphorae amulets animal Archaeological Asia Minor Assyrian basalt base beads Beirut Beka'a blue bone bowl bust Byblos Byzantine carinated cent century B.C. Cylinder seal Cypriote Cyprus decorated diorite disk Early Bronze Age Egypt Egyptian excavations faience figure figurines Floor Fragment Funerary stela Gerzean glass glaze goddess Greek Group Haematite Hama handle head headdress Hellenistic period Hittite hole horns Hyksos incised inscribed inscription Iron Age Jebail jugs Ksar Akil lamp Late Bronze Age Late Roman limestone marble Mesopotamian Middle shelf moulded Muhin Museum Mycenaean neck neolithic objects origin ornament painted Palestine Palmyra Palmyrene Persian Phoenician Phoenician sites Plate pottery probably provenance Roman period round sarcophagus scarabs Section Seleucid shape sherds side Sidon similar spout statuette stone style Syria Tablecase terracotta Three tomb Top shelf Tyre vase vessels vicinity of Beirut XVIII dynasty