The Farid Karam Antiquities Collection at USF by Institute for Digital Exploration (USF IDEx) on Sketchfab
The Farid Karam, M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection consists of 149 objects, including jars, goblets, bottles, oil lamps, unguentariums, and busts/figures, donated to the USF Libraries Special Collections in 1998 by Dr. Farid Karam and his wife Jehanne. Most of the items were acquired by Dr. Karam in Lebanon, originate in Roman Syria, a wealthy province on the Eastern Mediterranean, and date from the 1st through the 4th centuries AD.
In Fall 2016 Dr Davide Tanasi and his students at USF's Center for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies (CVAST) 3D scanned all 149 Karam objects using CVAST's FaroArm, a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). Final processing and creation of the 3D models was completed by Dr. Tanasi at the Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx) at the University of South Florida Department of History. The project process and history was captured in the article "Virtual Karam Collection: 3D Digital Imaging and 3D Printing for Public Outreach in Archaeology" by Tanasi, Hassam, and Kingsland.
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Unguentarium
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Long cylindrical bottle has a piriform body on a slightly indented base. The object is free-standing. The rim is in-folded unevenly and flattened. The bottle has a small hole within the first cm. below the rim. Two long bubbles are evident near the base in an area of exposed glass.
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Unguentarium
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Unglazed bottle has a flat base that narrows before expanding into the body. At the shoulder, the bottle assumes a funnel shape and supports a neck for 4 cm. before flaring to the rim. The rim is finished with a standing collar. The bottle bears whitish residue along one side from foot to rim, indicating that the bottle lay horizontally and partly in the ground. The base is irregular; the bottle cannot stand.
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Unguentarium
Unknown
Rectangular bottle is topped by a round neck. The walls are notably thick; the interior cavity appears to be oval. The rim is rounded; the base is flat. The bottle sits at an angle.
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Urn
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Small urn has two handles that rise from the high shoulder and then curl down to attach again at the neck 1.4 cm below the rim. The rim is simple. The base is concave; the object is free-standing. The body of the urn is egg-shaped. Evidence of glue inside the base.
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Urn
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Small urn has two handles that rise from the shoulder and curl down to the rim. The handles are not symmetrical. Rim is simple but unusually thick. Evidence of glue at the rim and at the base. Small cracks on the veneer that covers the entire vessel. Base is concave; the object is free-standing.
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Urn
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Small urn has two handles, both of which are now detached. The free handles had been glued where they attached to the urn; the glass of the urn is quite smooth. A long bubble appears along the neck at the attachment site. The mouth flairs from the conical neck. The rim is thick and uneven in diameter and thickness. Evidence of glue on the inside of the neck. Below the hip, ribs are molded into the glass. These ribs radiate up from the point where the body meets the base. The base is concave and seems to have no decoration. Evidence of glue inside the base.
