Greek Lamps and Their Survivals

Greek Lamps and Their Survivals
Author: Richard Hubbard Howland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1958
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of closed deposits at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B. C. to the 1st century A. D. Many photographs and profiles of sections permit ready identification, and a handy graphical chart of lamp types facilitates quick checking of the chronological range of each.

T.F. Wade in China

T.F. Wade in China
Author: James C. Cooley (Jr.)
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1981
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789004061989

Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora

Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora
Author: Susan I. Rotroff
Publisher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1992
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780876615256

In 1972 a large deposit of pottery and other finds from the mid-5th century B.C. were found in a pit just west of the Royal Stoa in the Athenian Agora. It contained many fragments of figured pottery, more than half of which were large drinking vessels. Twenty-one fragments were inscribed with a graffito known to be a mark of public ownership. The authors conclude that the pottery is refuse from one of the public dining facilities that served the magistrates of Classical Athens. The volume examines the archaeological context and chronology of the deposit and gives a detailed analysis of all the finds. A complete catalogue arranges the finds by type and in chronological order.

Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2017-09-30
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1606065130

In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have much to reveal about life, religion, pottery, and trade in the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Most of the Museum’s lamps have never before been published, and this extensive typological catalogue will thus be an invaluable scholarly resource for art historians, archaeologists, and those interested in the ancient world. Reflecting the Getty's commitment to open content, Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum is available online at http://www.getty.edu/publications/ancientlamps and may be downloaded free of charge in multiple formats, including PDF, MOBI/Kindle, and EPUB, and features zoomable images and multiple views of every lamp, an interactive map drawn from the Ancient World Mapping Center, and bibliographic references. For readers who wish to have a bound reference copy, a paperback edition has been made available for sale.

Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion
Author: Menelaos Christopoulos
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2010-09-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0739139010

Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic.

Lamps from the Athenian Agora

Lamps from the Athenian Agora
Author: Judith Perlzweig
Publisher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1963
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780876616093

At night, the darkness of the ancient Agora would have been pierced by the lights of oil lamps, and thousands of fragments of these distinctive objects have been found. This booklet presents the development of different styles of lamps and includes a very useful identification guide. The author discusses the manufacture of lamps in Athens, a major industry with over 50 known workshops in the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. She also provides illustrations of particularly fine examples, including ornate festival lamps with many nozzles and bizarre shapes.

Excavations at Nemea

Excavations at Nemea
Author: Darice Elizabeth Birge
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520070271

This is the first of the final reports on the excavations by the University of California at Nemea in the 1970's and 1980's. It contains the topographical and architectural studies: the Sacred Square (D Birge); the Xenon (L H Kraynak); and the Bath (S G Miller) . Includes a catalogue of the artifacts found.

Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery

Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery
Author: John W. Hayes
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2022-09-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 162139042X

This volume presents the Late Classical through Roman pottery from the University of Chicago excavations at Isthmia (1952-1989). In a series of three chapters-on the Late Classical and Hellenistic pottery, the Roman pottery, and the pottery from the Palaimonion-a general discussion is followed by a catalog presenting datable contexts and then by a catalogue of other noteworthy pottery. Appendixes discuss the stratigraphy of the Palaimonion and observations on new and previously published lamps. Amphora stamps are the focus of a further appendix, followed by a catalogue of the Slavic and Byzantine pottery found in the sanctuary area. Although the pottery is sometimes fragmentary, the range of materials over this thousand-year period is typical of Corinthian sites. The finds presented here provide critical information about the history of the Panhellenic sanctuary of Poseidon and the ritual activities that took place there.

The Land of Fertility I

The Land of Fertility I
Author: Maciej Wacławik
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2016-02-08
Genre: Mediterranean Region
ISBN: 1443888680

In the south-east Mediterranean region, the so-called ‘Fertile Crescent’, the modern world began its development at the very beginning of human civilisation. People living there were among the first in the world to domesticate plants and animals, and many of the ideas and objects that are in common use today originated from that area. The papers collected in this volume are based on papers presented at an international conference titled “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, which was focused on this very special region, and the processes prevalent there after the end of the Stone Age.