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The Archaeology Museum is located in an adjoining room to the Main
Labratory. If you wish to see our fabulous collection, please stop by
during the lab's public hours. If you are unable to visit during our
regular hours, you can arrange a special time with any of our curators
or Fr. Fulco and we will be more than happy to provide a guided tour of
our museum.
| Our Museum houses our Archaeological Collection, which consists of two
major components: the sherd collection and the display items. The sherd
collection is an assemblage of thousands of "diagnostic" pottery pieces
sorted and filed by provenance and period, from the neolithic to the
Islamic eras. Geographically these study collections range in the west
from ancient Rome, Greece, Cyprus, the Middle East extended to
Mesopotamia in the northeast and Egypt to the south. |
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The intact or display items consist of pieces which illustrate the
various phases of archaeological history in their geographical spreads.
There is an entire Early Bronze group of pottery, some 45 pieces,
excavated from a tomb in Jordan, a gift from the Jordanian Department
of Antiquities; a large collection of chalcolithic materials,
especially stone tools, from Tuleilat Ghassul, a gift of the Pontifical
Biblical Institute in Jerusalem; thousands of flints and stone tools
from various periods, most notably an impressive collection of
prehistoric hand-axes; a large collection of Roman and Byzantine
pottery; Phoenician and Indo-European statuary, Egyptian scarabs and
amulets, and intact pottery representative of the various Near Eastern
cultures.
New Cabinets!
These beautiful display cabinets were made possible by the generous donation of Denise Richards '68.
These materials have enabled Loyola Marymount University faculty to
teach all of its archaeological courses "hands-on." The students are
encouraged to handle the ancient artifacts without fear (we also have a
lab for reconstruction if something breaks!). This type of
archaeological instruction on the undergraduate level is unique in the
United States.