METAL LAMPS FROM ANTALYA MUSEUM
METAL LAMPS FROM ANTALYA MUSEUM

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this study is 22 copper alloy lamps that were brought to the Antalya Museum by methods other than archaeological excavations. The lamps, which were produced and used in the period between the Early Imperial Period and the Late Eastern Roman Period, were analyzed through literature searches and comparisons since they were recovered through non-contextual methods. Cat. No. 1-2 are cylindrical, deep-bodied, long-nosed, volute l lamps with volutes, which were widely produced in the Early Imperial Period and whose closest analogues were found in Herculaneum and Pompeii, which were buried under the ashes by the eruption of Vesuvius. Cat. No. 3-11, although with different forms, are quite common in different parts of the empire throughout the Roman period. The biconical-bodied, short-nosed lamps, which were produced and used extensively during the Late Eastern Roman Period from the late 3rd century AD onwards, are numbered as Cat. No. 12-19 and were identified and evaluated. Cat. No. 20 refers to shallow-bodied lamps with large crossed volutes, while Cat. No. 21 are examples of double-nosed lamps with large crosses. Cat. No. 22 is an example of the round-bodied, long-nosed lamps that were widely used between the 5th-7th centuries AD.

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