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

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Chrzanovski L.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
263-295
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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.
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Ioannis Motsianos and Karen S. Garnett (Eds), "Glass, wax and metal: lighting technologies in late antique, byzantine and medieval times", Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019 – book review

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Chrzanovski L.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
671-673
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Symposium proceedings
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The Forcart Collection of lamps from Fayum

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Chrzanovski L.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
555-639
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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.
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An "achtformige" bronze lamp from Ptuj/Poetovio

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Nestorović A., Chrzanovski L.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
241-254
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This research highlights a recent discovery, at Poetovio, among a huge number of standard imported Roman oil lamps, of an open-shape copper-alloy lamp to be used with tallow (type Loeschcke XXV). This form, together with its clay counterpart (type Loeschcke XI), is typical of the northern Roman limes provinces where its production and usage was almost exclusive. To understand the uniqueness of this find so far south, the authors have mapped all the known parallels made of different metals. They also present a short introduction to the very eclectic clay variant, which is marginal almost everywhere except for Trier, where it constitutes by far the most common type, quantitatively speaking, of Roman lamps found in situ.
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Preface

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Zych I., Chrzanovski L.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
9-13
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Preface to a special collection volume on lamp studies gathering together material from new and old finds from Spain in the west to the Eastern Mediterranean and even India, mainly from the Hellenistic through Byzantine times.
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The popularity of the Ricci C type of wheel-made lamps in southeastern Sicily: questions and hypotheses

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Chrzanovski L., Chowaniec R.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
25-44
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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.
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Lamps with "temple facade" decoration: witness to urban vitality in the northern and western Black Sea and the ties with Constantinople

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Chrzanovski L., Zhuravlev D., Topoleanu F.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
125-159
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The architectural motif in the form of an arch-on-columns, the titular “temple facade”, decorating the discus of late antique lamps, has been the subject of debate and various interpretations of the meaning without reference to the rendering or the lamp type. An examination of known examples of lamps with this particular motif has identified four different lamp type variants and two main renderings of the decoration. Ovoid lamps bearing a representation of an arch-on-columns, the most numerous among the finds, come mostly from Constantinople and nearby cities, the Black Sea coast and the Danubian sites, the sole exceptions being Egypt (where they appear also in a late variant), Cyprus and Byblos. Reconstructing the distribution of these types and renderings has introduced some “order” into the existing hypotheses and highlighted issues connected with understanding the booming economy of the Pontic area as well as the recently rebuilt Danubian limes fortresses, during their apex, in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. It has also contributed to the discussion aimed at ending the widespread use of the term “Balkan lamps” for products that represent the output of Pontic and Danubian workshops influenced by the Imperial capital in Constantinople.
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Tibi diem natalem felicem optamus, Marielle! Tribute to Marielle Martiniani-Reber on her 65th anniversary.

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Chrzanovski L., Aballea S., Bonzon G., Boujouala A., Borel C., Liaudet N., Lini G.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2019
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vol. 28(1)
15-23
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Essay on the life achievement of Marielle Martiniani-Reber, tribute on her 65th anniversary.
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Unwrapping the micro-history of a house cistern from ancient Akrai/Acrae (southeastern Sicily)

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Chowaniec R., Chrzanovski L., Domżalski K., Gręzak A., Matera M., Młynarczyk J., Wagner M., Wicenciak U., Więcek T.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2020
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vol. 29(2)
603-652
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The paper looks into the turbulent history of the ancient town of Akrai/Acrae in a mountainous part of southeastern Sicily, encapsulated in the assemblage of finds from a domestic cistern, which was remodeled and adapted in the course of its use. The cistern is considered as an architectural feature against the background of the ancient town, and the assemblage recovered from it is exmined thoroughly category by category, giving insight into the life of the ancient inhabitants of this island in the Mediterranean.
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