Ancient Levant
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 43 artefacts dating from 2500 BC–300 AD from Ancient Levant, a region encompassing south-eastern Turkey, western Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan. This collection contains two fragments of terracotta figurines and a bronze axehead, possibly from the port of Byblos, Syria. A bronze protome and three bronze figurines of hump-backed bulls are also possibly from Syria. In addition, there is part of a rare wooden goblet similar to glazed examples of the late 14th–13th century BC from north Syria and Cyprus, which may have been preserved during the Egyptian New Kingdom. The collection includes a number of glass vessels, including 21 Phoenician examples and a fragment of raw glass from Tyre, Lebanon, and two Roman examples from Syria. Other objects include five oil lamps, two pairs of gold earrings, a collection of potsherds, a Greco-Roman comb made of bone and a fine limestone head of woman dating to 300 AD.
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