Don de Laurent Chrzanovski

Citoyen suisse et italien, aujourd'hui HDR et Professeur aux Universités, membre de l'Ecole Doctorale de l'Université de Sibiu, Laurent Chrzanovski est surtout connu pour ses recherches et publications dans le domaine des lampes antiques - la lychnologie - sujet auquel il a dédié plus de 20 ouvrages et une centaine d'articles, ainsi que de nombreuses expositions destinées au grand public. Il est en charge, entre autres, des lampes des fouilles d'Arles-Rhône 3, de celles des missions de l'Un..

The Forcart Collection of lamps from Fayum

The Forcart collection of Ptolemaic, Roman and Late Roman lamps from Fayum is today the largest single-collector Egyptian lychnological corpus owned by a Swiss public institution, the Geneva Museum of Art and History, which acquired it in 1923. The importance of the 145 lamps in this collection is twofold. Firstly, all the artifacts were offered to Max Kurt Forcart by the different directors of excavations operating legally in the Fayum area during the first two decades of the 20th century, giving us a clear—even if generic—finding area, contrary to collections purchased from the various antiquaries. And secondly, even if incomplete compared to the richness and diversity of the Fayum workshops, the chronological and typological range it covers makes it a perfect companion to the only two published and illustrated lamp catalogs of regular excavations made in the area: the early 1900s work of W.M.F. Petrie at Ehnasya and the later investigations by the University of Michigan team at Karanis. Also highlighted are the unique Fayum fashions and approaches to the importation, adoption or rejection of common types found in the Nile Delta, as well as the emergence of typically microregional subtypes as discussed by John W. Hayes

Lamps from the foundation pits (fossae) in the principia of the castrum of Novae

Oil lamps found in foundation pits excavated on the site of the first principia in the Roman fortress of Novae (ŠviŠtov, Bulgaria), built shortly after AD 69, are part of the waste discarded by a legion which manned the site for the previous quarter of a century, starting from AD 45. These lighting devices provide essential information on the supply chain of the legionary camp of Novae before 71, when the pits were ultimately filled. The assemblage illustrates the high quality of the materials sent to the legion, including exclusive imports mainly from Italy and Asia Minor, but also from the Aegean world and South Pannonia. It further underscores the fact that military supply chains in the 1st century AD did not follow the easiest and shorter routes and, as regards lamps, frequently ignored much closer and already active lamp-producing centers

Lampe en bronze de Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, Hérault

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The popularity of the Ricci C type of wheel-made lamps in southeastern Sicily: questions and hypotheses

At Akrai in southeastern Sicily, the University of Warsaw excavations have unearthed a huge quantity of small, wheel-made, beige-slipped lamps belonging to the Roman Republican type Ricci C. The most important conclusions from the research concern the functionality of these lamps, both as devices used for lighting in everyday life and as unused elements of votive deposits, as well as their enduring presence in southeastern Sicily when they had all but disappeared elsewhere in the Roman world. The type is a derivative of an old form and peaked in popularity in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. The last examples of this type seem to have been produced in the reign of Augustus

A partial iconographical dictionary of early roman imperial lamps (70-130 AD): A short study of 290 discus-motifs adorning the lamps discovered within the harbor garbage covering the « Arles-Rhône 3 » shipwreck and of their geographic repartition

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