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Description: | Near East archaeology - A small Departmental collection of about forty objects. These include Cypriot pottery, fragments of Samian ware, Myceneaen sherds, Roman glass, metalwork and coins. It is currently on display in the library of the School of Classics.
This extensive collection is held by the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. It originally formed a Departmental Museum which was used for teaching in the 1950s and 60s.
As well as being a significant surviving example of such a teaching collection, it contains material from several important excavations. These include the Jericho and Jerusalem excavations directed by Kathleen Kenyon.
There are altogether about 10,00 items, mostly pottery sherds, but also some metalwork, beads and other material.
seals, jewellery and cuneiform tablets mainly relating to the archaeology of Babylon and Ur of Chaldees dating from 2,000 BC to 70 AD. The collection was presented to the University in 1940 by Mr. and Mrs. Ogden.
This Arabic Studies collection consists of approximately 10,000 Near Eastern archaeological artefacts (pottery sherds, metalwork, beads) and a few hundred ethnographic items primarily dating from the 1940s. There are also Sefardic and Hebraic scrolls.
This is a closed collection.
There is also a small collection of seals, jewellery and cuneiform tablets mainly relating to the archaeology of Babylon and Ur of Chaldees dating from 2,000 BC to 70 AD. The collection was presented to the University in 1940 by Mr. and Mrs. Ogden.
The collection is held by Special Collections in the Brotherton Library | Subjects: | Seals (law) Pottery Jewellery Archaeology Metalwork (product) | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | Fax: 0113 34 35561(mark for Attn: University Galle | Telephone: | 0113 34 32777 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1138 | Go to resource |
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