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Ancient Purple Dyeing

Ancient Purple Dyeing by Extraction of the Colour from Murex Phylonnus Tronculus, Murex Phylonnus Brandaris, Thais Purpura Haemastoma and Whelk Following the Natural History of Plinius Secundus Calus called Pliny the Elder (23 AD – 79 AD)
Joseph Doumet
DECADE (P.38-49)

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Issue 1

Issue 1

CAMILLE ASMAR A Word from the Director NINA JIDEJIAN In Memoriam: Emir Maurice Chéhab SUZY HAKIMIAN Tomorrow’s National Museum ANNE-MARIE AFEICHE Indexing the Collection MUHAMAD TOUFIC RIFAI Current Archaeological excavations ISABELLE DOUMET-SKAF The Asi-l-Hadat...

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Issue 2

Issue 2

CAMILLE ASMAR Byblos Rationalization and Conservation of an Archaeological Site MUHAMAD-TOUFIC RIFAI Restoration and Renovation of the Umayyad Mosque of Baalbek ANNE-MARIE MAILA-AFEICHE Politique de Conservation de deux Monuments Historiques Libanais : Nahr-el Kelb et...

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Issue 3

Issue 3

CAMILLE ASMAR Dismantling the Concrete Caissons in the Beirut National Museum CAROLE MENDLESON Beirut: Uncovering the Past VRONWY HANKEY A Middle Minoan Cup from the Kharji Cemetery, Beirut JEAN LAUFFRAY Jean Lauffray and the Lebanon PHILIPPE MARQUIS Les Fouilles du...

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Issue 4

Issue 4

CAMILLE ASMAR Directorate General of Antiquities Programme of Reconstruction:The Latest Developments MUHAMAD TOUFIC RIFAÏ Latest News on Excavations in the Lebanon HANNA EL BANNA-CHIDIAC Beirut: Uncovering the Past / Beyrouth: le temps retrouvé CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL...

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Issue 5

Issue 5

CAMILLE ASMAR Histoire des collections du Musée National de Beyrouth: la collection Ford UWE FINKBEINER Fortifications of Prehellenistic Beirut: The Archaeological Site Beirut 020 FREDERIC ALPI L’épigraphie grecque et latine au Liban: panorama historique MUNTAHA...

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Issue 6

Issue 6

RENE HUYGHE Un Musée national d’antiquités et des Beaux-Arts à Beyrouth [reprinted from L’Architecture, vol. XLIV, 2, (1931)] JEAN-MICHEL WILMOTTE Projet: Musée National de Beyrouth, 1997 SUZY HAKIMIAN Le Musée National de Beyrouth, Renaissance à partir du 25 novembre...

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Issue 7

Issue 7

CAMILLE ASMAR Beirut National Museum: Project for the Opening of its Upper Gallery ROLPH A. STUCKY Le sanctuaire d’Echmoun à Sidon EVELYNE CHANTRIAUX-VICARD Les mosaïques du Musée National: quelques aspects du programme de restauration CHRIS G. CUMBERPATCH  Approaches...

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Issue 8

Issue 8

ISABELLE SKAF The National Museum’s Conservation Laboratory: activities and achievements VALERIE MATOIAN « Liban, l’Autre Rive ». Evocation du patrimoine libanais à l’Institut du Monde Arabe MARGARETE VAN ESS Heliopolis – Baalbek research in ruins 1898 JENS HANSSEN...

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Issue 9

Issue 9

HENRI LOFFET La Stèle de Ramsès II en provenance de Tyr TAKESHI GOTOH The Crisis of Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan & Lebanon:  a “NAGAYA” or “row of houses” in a downtown area JOSEPH DOUMET De la Teinture en Pourpre des Anciens par l’Extraction du Produit...

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Issue 10

Issue 10

CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL IntroductionTopography ANNIE CAUBET Remarques sur les Fouilles du Dr Georges Contenau à Helalieh et Ayaa(Sidon) NINA JIDEJIAN Greater Sidon and its “Cities of the Dead”The Temple of Eshmun JOHN CURTIS New Excavation at Sidon CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL...

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Issue 11

Issue 11

HENRI LOFFET Derechef Ramsès II, Tyr et la Stèle 2030 du Musée des Antiquités Nationales Libanaises de Beyrouth B. WARNING-TREUMAN  Plucky Coastal Traders and Timber for Egypt:Thoughts on Nimrud, Letter 12 V. KARAGEORGHIS Phoenician News from Cyprus J. N. COLDSTREAM...

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Issue 12

Issue 12

1658 - REGINE GOUTALIER Le Chevalier d’Arvieux, un étonnant voyageur en Orient au XVIIème Siècle 1802 – G. MALCOLM WAGSTAFF Three Friends in Lebanon, April, 1802 1817 – USSAMA MAKDISI Lady Hester Stanhope and the Romance of the East 1820 - CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL...

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Issue 13

Issue 13

PIERRE AMIET Texte et Image : Vaines attentes et transferts inattendus CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL A Ram’s head handle from Sidon DOMINIQUE COLLON The Green Jasper Seal Workshop Revisited BARBARA A. PORTER The Ball Staff Revisited: Insights from Old Syrian Popular Style...

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Issue 14

Issue 14

F. NIGEL HEPPER The Cedar of Lebanon in History ANDREW GEORGE Gilgamesh and the Cedars of Lebanon PIERRE M. BIKAI Ishtar (the Cedar-Tree) and the Defeat of Gilgamesh CEMAL PULAK Cedar for ships HENRI LOFFET La Pierre de Palerme : Notes sur la traduction du mot « ASH »...

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Issue 15

Issue 15

CLAUDIO VITA-FINZI Prehistory and Tectonics on Mount Carmel GEORGES N. SABBAGH La grande cassure africaine au Liban « la faille de Yammouneh » KATHIA ESPIC, CHRISTOPHE MORHANGE, MICHEL BOURCIER, CAROLE BRUZZI, PIERRE CARBONEL, TANIOS NAMMOUR, CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Les...

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Issue 16

Issue 16

CHARLES FOSTER The First Crusaders in Lebanon JAN ANCKAER Lebanon in the Travels of Sir Joos of Ghistele, (1482-1483) JOHN R. BARTLETT Richard Pococke in Lebanon, 1738 DEBORAH MANLEY Mr. and Mrs. Barker and Family: Franks in the Levant FRANCOIS POUILLON Camille...

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Issue 17

Issue 17

Third and Second Millennium BC CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Jars from the Third Millennium BC at Sidon (south Lebanon): a Standardized Production in the Emergence of an Urban Culture CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Jars from the Second Millennium BC at Sidon: Childs Burials or deposited...

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Issue 18

Issue 18

CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL SIDON – British Museum Excavations 1998-2003 JOSEPH ALEXANDER Mac GILLIVRAY A Middle Minoan Cup from Sidon EMMANUELLE VILA Animal Bone Deposit under Sidon’s Minoan Cup HENRI CHARLES LOFFET Examination of Several Scarabs from Sidon 2002 Season of...

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Issue 19

Issue 19

FLORA NIGEL HEPPER An Introduction to Plants in Archaeology HENRY C. LOFFET Sur quelques espèces d’arbres de la zone syro-palestinienne et libanaise exportées vers l’Egypte pharaonique CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL The Palm Tree Motif in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age:...

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Issue 20

Issue 20

TYRE   DENYS PRINGLE A Crusader chapel in the Hippodrome of Tyre TIBNIN   HANS H. CURVERS & BARBARA STUART Qalat Tibnin: Archaeology for a Future Conservation Plan SIDON   CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Warrior Burial 27 at Sidon ALAN OGDEN Sidon, Burial 27,...

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Issue 21

Issue 21

IBRAHIM KAOUKABANI Les Estampilles Phéniciennes de Tyr PIERRE BORDREUIL Préface Les Estampilles Phéniciennes de Tyr JEAN-PAUL REY-COQUAIS Dix ans d’épigraphie libanaise : inscriptions antiques grecques ou latines BOOK REVIEWS   ANNE RABATE   ROGER SAIDAH...

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Issue 22

Issue 22

USSAMA MAKDISI Introduction: Beyond Missionary Heroes and Native Resistance: Rethinking Missionary Encounters in Lebanon and the Middle East AKRAM KHATER A Deluded Woman: Hindiyya al-‘Ujaimi and the Politics of Gender and Religion in Eighteenth Century Bilad al-Sham...

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Issue 23

Issue 23

SIDON   CLAUDE DOUMIT-SERHAL   With contributions by NICOLAS COLDSTREAM, VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS & BRIAN A. SPARKES Preliminary Report on the Iron Age at Sidon: British Museum Excavations 2003-2004 SHHÎM   TOMASZ WALISZEWSKI From the Roman Temple to the...

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Issue 24

Issue 24

FRANÇOISE BRIQUEL-CHATONNET The Name of Sidon CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Sidon: A Mud Brick Building at the Close of the Third Millennium BC CHRISTOPHER RAMSEY & CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Carbon 14 Analysis from a New Early Bronze Age III building at Sidon. ETHEL ALLUÉ &...

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Issue 25

Issue 25

DAHER DIB, La Franc-Maçonnerie GÉRARD FIGUIÉ with RITA SAYEGH & RIAD ABOU JAOUDÉ Freemasonry in Lebanon: an Overview MONICA CORRADO The Essentials of Freemasonry (al-khulasa al-masuniyya), an Annoted Translation of Luwis Shaykhu’s Article on Freemasonry DOROTHE...

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Issue 26-27

Issue 26-27

JEAN-LOUIS HUOT Préface Tell Arqa   ERIC GUBEL Varia Irqatica KARIN KOPETZKY Pottery from Tell Arqa found in Egypt and their chronological contexts GUILLAUME GERNEZ A propos du moule à bijoux de Tell Arqa HANAN CHARAF New light on the end of the of the late...

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Issue 28

Issue 28

YVES CALVET Préface IBRAHIM KAWKABANI Les anses timbrées en grec de Jal el-Bahr (Tyr) NICK MARRINER Paléo-environnements des ports antiques de Tyr, Sidon et Beyrouth   Dynamiques paleo-environnementales des ports antiques et du tombolo de Tyr   Recherches...

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Issue 29

Issue 29

Sidon   CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL   New cylinder seal impressions from Sidon DOMINIQUE DE MOULINS   Sidon grain from the storerooms HANI ABDUL-NOUR & NAYLA ZEIDAN GÈZE, CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL     Sidon British Museum Excavations (college site):...

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