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Former USF Libraries- Karam Lebanon Collection 3D Models

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This collection of 149 artifacts was previously held by the University of South Florida Special Collections and is known as the Farid Karam, M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection. Dr. Farid Karam and his wife Jehanne donated the collection to the USF Libraries in 1998. Dr. Karam (1929-2018) was a Plastic Surgeon with the USF College of Medicine, and also worked in the 1960s at the University Hospital of Beirut, maintaining connections to Lebanon and its history. The collection includes oil lamps, busts, statues/figures, jars, goblets, and glass unguentaria that are from sites lacking provenance of the Hellenistic or Roman Era. The artifacts were collected during Dr. Karam's travels to Lebanon and the Middle East throughout his lifetime. The USF CDHGI conducted structured light scanning in 3D and photogrammetry to create digital collection documentation. The collection has since been moved to the Tampa Museum of Art, with only this smaller digital collection of these objects still with the USF Libraries.