Ancient Lamps
in the
Royal Ontario Museum
I: Greek and Roman Clay Lamps
J. W. Hayes - 9789004663534
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J. W. HAYES
Ancient Lamps
in the
Royal Ontario Museum
I: Greek and Roman Clay Lamps
A Catalogue"
with photographs by
W. B. Robertson and others
w
ROM
ROY AL ONTARIO MUSEUM
TORONTO 1980
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J. W. HAYES
is Associate Curator in the Greek and Roman Department of
the Royal Ontario Museum
Cover : Italian round-no zzled lamp with small swivelling lid
in the form of a comic "slave" mask over filling hole .
Probably late 1st century A .D . See catalogue number 241.
Canadian Cataloguing In Publication Data
Royal Ontario Museum.
Ancient lamps in the Royal Ontario Museum I
Bibliograph y: p.
Includes index .
ISBN 0-88854-253-4 bd.
I . Lamps. Greek - Ontar io - Toronto - Catalog s.
2. Lamps . Roman - Ontario - Toronto - Catalogs.
3. Royal Ontar io Museum. I. Hayes. John W . • 1938-
II. Title.
NK4680 .R69 749 ' .63 C80-094442-9
© The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1980
ISBN 0-88854-253-4
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Bibliography and Abbreviations ix
Notes and Conventions xiv
Introduction I
Saucer Lamps with Pinched Spouts (' 'Cocked Hat"
Type) 4
Wheel-made Greek and Hellenistic Types 6
Hellenistic Mould-made Lamps: Greek and Eastern
Mediterranean Types 15
Ptolemaic Egyptian Mould-made Lamps 19
Italian Relief Lamps 44
"Factory Lamps" (Firmalampen) and Imitations 58
Western Provincial Products 61
North African Lamps 63
Aegean Types (Greece, Asia Minor) of Roman Date 70
Cilician Types 72
Cypriot Lamps 75
Syrian Lamps 86
Palestinian Types 90
Egyptian Lamps: Roman Imperial Period 93
Egyptian Lamps: Late Roman/Byzantine 118
Fakes and Reproductions 136
Appendix I: Lamp Moulds 140
Appendix II: A Plastic Vase with a Lampmaker's
Signature 142
Appendix III: Lanterns and "Lamp Houses" 143
Concordances 145
Indexes 153
Plates 157
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