Lamps of the Roman Period, First to Seventh Century After Christ

Lamps of the Roman Period, First to Seventh Century After Christ
Author: Judith Perlzweig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1961
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Nearly 3,000 specimens of lamps of Roman character are catalogued in this volume that covers the period from the 1st century B. C. to the 8th century A. D. The lamps are not easy to classify because the appearance of the clay used is not an infallible guide to the place of manufacture and the molds used to create the shapes were used widely around the Mediterranean. Terracotta lamps were probably made for local consumption in most cities of Greece; only a few centers, notably Athens and Corinth, developed an export trade capable of competing with local manufacturers. Since lamps from Athens do appear at other sites, the presentation of a well-dated sample of these finds provides useful reference material for scholars working at other sites.

The Lamps of Late Antiquity from Rhodes

The Lamps of Late Antiquity from Rhodes
Author: Angeliki Katsioti
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2017-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784917478

This study focuses on the recording, study and publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The aim here is to present the diachronic changes in the artistic sensibility and preferences of this particular market.

Glass, Wax and Metal: Lighting Technologies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Times

Glass, Wax and Metal: Lighting Technologies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Times
Author: Ioannis Motsianos
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789692172

This volume provides an extensive look at the technological development of lighting and lighting devices during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Western Europe and Byzantium. 29 papers are gathered from two International Lychnological Association (ILA) Round Tables held in Olten, Switzerland (2007) and Thessaloniki, Greece (2011).

The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology

The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology
Author: Finney
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 822
Release: 2017
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0802890164

One of the most widely respected theological dictionaries put into one-volume, abridged form. Focusing on the theological meaning of each word, the abridgment contains English keywords for each entry, tables of English and Greek keywords, and a listing of the relevant volume and page numbers from the unabridged work at the end of each article or section.

Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land

Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land
Author: Varda Sussman
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784915718

This volume illustrates lamps from the Byzantine period excavated in the Holy Land and demonstrates the extent of their development since the first enclosing/capturing of light (fire) within a portable man-made vessel.

Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire

Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire
Author: Marianne Saghy
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9633862558

Do the terms ?pagan? and ?Christian,? ?transition from paganism to Christianity? still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting ?pagans? and ?Christians? in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between ?pagans? and ?Christians? replaced the old ?conflict model? with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if ?paganism? had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, ?Christianity? came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, ?pagans? and ?Christians? lived ?in between? polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies. ÿ

The Art of Antiquity

The Art of Antiquity
Author: John K. Papadopoulos
Publisher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 087661960X

The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolors and drawings - well over 400 - by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes, people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running archaeological projects in Greece.The aim of this volume is to bring these illustrations out of the storage drawers and to assemble in color a representative sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong's contributions. Along the way, this book tells the story of the Agora excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship. It includes essays by 16 scholars currently working at the Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are studying - from Neolithic poetry to the Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon.

Artifacts from Ancient Rome

Artifacts from Ancient Rome
Author: James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Art
ISBN:

When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society. Artifacts from Ancient Rome is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords "hands-on training" on how to approach primary sources. The author—a historian also trained as an archaeologist—begins by explaining the concept of using artifacts to understand and "see" the past and providing a primer for effectively analyzing artifacts. Entries on the artifacts follow, with each containing an introduction, a description of the artifact, an explanation of its significance, and a list of further sources of information. Readers of the book will not only gain a composite impression of daily life in ancient Rome through the study of artifacts from domestic life, religion, war, transportation, entertainment, and more, but will also learn how to best understand and analyze primary sources for learning.

Statues in Roman Society

Statues in Roman Society
Author: Peter Stewart
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004-02-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0191514241

Statues are among the most familiar remnants of classical art. Yet their prominence in ancient society is often ignored. In the Roman world statues were ubiquitous. Whether they were displayed as public honours or memorials, collected as works of art, dedicated to deities, venerated as gods, or violated as symbols of a defeated political regime, they were recognized individually and collectively as objects of enormous significance. By analysing ancient texts and images, Statues in Roman Society unravels the web of associations which surrounded Roman statues. Addressing all categories of statuary together for the first time, it illuminates them in ancient terms, explaining expectations of what statues were or ought to be and describing the Romans' uneasy relationship with 'the other population' in their midst.