BEY006
WINDOWS ON THE SOUK

AUB/ACRE

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction and overview

Module 1

Themes for display and presentation

Interactive displays - Virtual Reality options

Module 2

The House of the Fountains

Introduction - domestic architecture in ancient Beirut

Gazetteer of rooms in the House of the Fountains

Module 3

The Byzantine portico and shops

Introduction - the Souks of Byzantine Beirut

Gazetteer of shops

Module 4

The structural context - the history of the site (Area 2)

The site

The earlier sequences

Byzantine renewal - the context of the houses and shops

Late antiquity

Module 5

Byzantine houses: raw materials and construction

Introduction

Stone quarries and stone masons of Classical Beirut

Stone building and building techniques

Module 6

Byzantine houses: Water supply and drainage

Introduction

Water supply - the infrastructure of a Roman town

Supplying the houses and workshops

Module 7

Lighting the houses: the lamps

Module 8

Finds from the Byzantine houses

Module 9

The Byzantine Souks: coins and money-changing

Module 10

The Byzantine Souks: the glass shop

Module 11

The Byzantine Souks: pottery and trade

Module 12

A gazetteer of the mosaics