NEW CONSIDERATIONS ON THE LATE ROMAN LAMPS FROM THE MARIA AND DR. GEORGE SEVEREANU COLLECTION
NEW CONSIDERATIONS ON THE LATE ROMAN LAMPS FROM THE MARIA AND DR. GEORGE SEVEREANU COLLECTION

Summary/Abstract: This paper revisits the late Roman lamps from the Maria and dr. George Severeanu collection, namely the Pontic, Micro-Asian and African types, both imported and imitations. The lamps featured have been previously published by George Severeanu himself and later by C. Băluță, mainly in a purely descriptive manner. George Severeanu’s publication is of particular importance as it registered the provenance of the artefacts, lost for many other pieces of his vast collection. Most of the pieces were discovered at Tomis, one at Callatis and one other at Olbia. One of the lamps has no place of provenance, but by means of analogies for the type we can suggests one, at least for the centre of production. The present paper revisits these lamps and attempts to bring new information and insight, while placing them into a larger social and economic context.

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