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Kamid el-Loz
Kamid el-Loz
4000 years and more of rural and urban life in the Lebanese Beqa'a plain
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)
TYR – Etude sur la couleur pourpre ancienne – A study on ancient purple
TYR - Etude sur la couleur pourpre ancienne
TYR - A study on ancient purple
Joseph Doumet
AHL Free Issues
Issue 1
CAMILLE ASMAR a Word from the Director THE TRUSTEES About the Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Anhtropoid Sarcophagi DIALA EZZEDINE Archeology & Ancient DNA (the Living Past) ANDREA RESEK Colloquium at the British Museum MUHAMAD...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 »...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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,...
Issue 21
PIERRE BORDREUIL preface IBRAHIM KAOUKABANI LES ESTAMPILLES PHÉNICIENNES -spread - IBRAHIM KAOUKABANI LES ESTAMPILLES PHÉNICIENNES -single - PHILIPPE MARQUIS in memorial JEAN PAUL RAY COQUAIS DIX ANS D’EPIGRAPHIE LIBANAISE - spread - JEAN PAUL RAY COQUAIS DIX ANS...
Issue 22
AKRAM KHATER A DELUDED WOMAN HINDIYYA AL-UJAIMI AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND RELIGION IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BILAD AL SHAM USSAMA MAKDISI BEYOND MISSIONARY HEROES AND NATIVE RESISTANCE RETHINKING MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS IN LEBANON AND THE MIDDLE EAST JENS HANSSEN...
Issue 23
HANI ABDUL-NOUR A PROPOS D’UNE INSCRIPTION ÉNIGMATIQUE DE LA HAUTE MONTAGNE LIBANAISE ANNE RABATE Book review JEAN PAUL REY-COQUAIS BOOK REVIEW RAYMOND GÈZE - HANI ABDUL-NOUR DEUX NOUVELLES INSCRIPTIONS FORESTIÈRES D’HADRIEN AU LIBAN RANA MIKATI - DOMINIC PERRING...
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 Carbon 14 Analysis from a New Early Bronze Age III building at Sidon ETHEL ALLUÉ Identification of wood from...
Issue 25
DAHER DIB La Franc-Maçonnerie GÉRARD FIGUIÉ IN COLLABORATION WITH RITA SAYEGH AND RIAD ABOU JAOUDÉ Freemasonry in Lebanon: an Overview MONICA CORRADO The Essentials of Freemasonry (al-khul©xa al-m©s≠niyya), an Annoted Translation of Luw´s Shaykh≠’s Article on...
Issue 26-27
HENRI CHARLES LOFFET Chasse aux Lions de lAn du Regne dAmen-Hotep III et ses Scarabees Commemoratifs HANI ABDUL-NOUR, CHRISTIAN AKHRASS, RAYMOND GEZE Quatre Nouvelles Inscriptions Forestieres dHadrien dans le Mont Liban SUSAN WALKER SIDON 2007 A Marble Statuette of...
Issue 28
Recherches Géoarcheologiques dans le Port Antique de Beyrouth Recherches Géoarcheologiques dans le Port Antique de SIDON Dynamiques Paleo-Environnements des Ports Antiques et du Tombolo de Tyr NICK MARRINER Paleo-Environnements des Ports Antiques...
Issue 29
HANI ABDUL-NOUR A PROPOS D’UNE INSCRIPTION ÉNIGMATIQUE DE LA HAUTE MONTAGNE LIBANAISE ANNE RABATE Book review JEAN PAUL REY-COQUAIS BOOK REVIEW RAYMOND GÈZE - HANI ABDUL-NOUR DEUX NOUVELLES INSCRIPTIONS FORESTIÈRES D’HADRIEN AU LIBAN RANA MIKATI - DOMINIC PERRING...