AROL 101 Final, Fall 2007
American University of Beirut · Introduction to Archaeology · 2 pages
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LP CHAEOLOGY 104
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Final Examination
[ Bate: January 25,2008 + Time: TWO licurs «Instructor: H. Seeden |
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Identifications
50%
Time: 60 minutes
Significant heritage sites, artifacts and images you have seen:
e Please, identify the EIGHT images and describe what they represent.
e Note that several images combine more than one artifact from different origins.
e The descriptions should include the type of artifact(s), its origin, period and purpose,
as well as its present significance.
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Essay questions | & 2
50 %
Time: 60 minutes
Beirut’s Past included in the Beirut Central District (BCD)
through presentations, actual and/or virtual:
The postwar Souks excavations haye taught us much about Beirut’s past,
particularly in Ottoman C8" to early 20" century) and Roman-Byzantine times (first
to sixth centuries AD until the 551 earthquake destruction).
4. What aspects of recently (1993 and on) excavated Ottoman and Roman-Byzantine
Beirut could be recreated in the BCD?
2. How can existing and restored Ottoman period buildings and museums be better
included on a ‘heritage walk through Beirut’s Past’?
. Ottoman suggestions
Excavated: Ottoman port, workshops, gardens and fountains...
iving: the ‘Grand Sérail’ and clocktower; Ottoman period mosques and churches; a public
bathhouse; Ottoman period houses.....
° Roman-Byzantine suggestions
Roman hippodrome; Byzantine shops (glass, essential oilsfherbal medicine, and a
laundry/clothes shop) below the modern Souks; Roman baths; tavernas; houses......
. Any other suggestions?
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