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Museums & Research Facilities
U.C. Berkeley provides its students with a number of opportunities to examine first-hand the actual artifacts of the cultures studied by AHMA students.
- The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology has extensive holdings of ancient artifacts, including Classical material, cuneiform tablets and an ancient Egyptian collection of more than 17,000 objects.
- Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
- The Tebtunis Papyri consist of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis, led by the British archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, was financed for the University of California by Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. The Tebtunis Papyri are the largest collection of papyrus documents from a single site in the United States. Although the collection has never been counted and inventoried completely, the number of fragments contained in it exceeds 21,000.
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Nemea Center
- The new Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology has just appointed its first Director and will be developing new programs as well as carrying on research and minor excavation activities at Nemea. The Classics Department also owns an extensive study collection of ancient coins, most of which are the gift of Henry Lindgren.
- The Howell Bible Collection & The Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology
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The Howell Bible Collection consists of approximately 300 rare books, primarily Bibles, dating largely from the 15th through the 18th centuries. The core of the Institute's collection consists of materials from Tell en-Nasbeh Palestine excavated under the direction of Dr. William Badè between 1926 and 1935.
Of the hundreds of lamps, pitchers, bowls, jars, and jewelry and cosmetic items found in the ruins of the city, about half were deposited at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, while others were shipped to Berkeley. Those on display in the Badè Museum provide graphic evidence of everyday activities in a provincial town three thousand years ago, and offer instructive comparison with life in this century.
- Archaeological Research Facility
- The mission of the Archaeological Research Facility is to support archaeological field and laboratory research undertaken by U.C. Berkeley archaeologists and related specialists. Currently, 36 U.C. Berkeley faculty members from 10 departments and Organized Research Units are active participants in the ARF. The ARF operates some laboratory facilities, and offers equipment and funding support to campus archaeologists (including graduate students). The ARF also publishes a newsletter and a publication series; oversees over $1,000,000.00 in endowments; sponsors a lecture series that attracts scholars of international repute; and operates an undergraduate teaching laboratory in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology as well as an educational outreach program.
- The Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy
- The Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy is a new campus research facility endowed by the Estate of the late Dr. Sara B. Aleshire, an alumna of AHMA and a distinguished scholar of Greek epigraphy and ancient Greek religion. The purpose of the Center is to encourage and support the research of UCB faculty and graduate students in ancient Greek inscriptions from all regions of the Mediterranean world. To that end, the Center provides funds for 1) research grants for travel to study Greek inscriptions; 2) seminars and conferences at UCB to further the study of Greek Epigraphy; and 3) book purchases related to the study of Greek Epigraphy. The Center is administered by an Advisory Committee to the Chairman of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. The chair of the Advisory Committee is Professor Emily Mackil. The Center is located in 6221 and 6223 Dwinelle Hall and includes a substantial research library in Greek epigraphy, an extensive collection of offprints especially in Greek religion, an archive of photographs of Greek inscriptions and a large collection of squeezes