The volume focuses on the
study of 567 lamps, coming from the excavations of the North Necropolis
of Antinoupolis carried out in the years 1965 and 1966 by the
Papyrological Institute “G. Vitelli”, Florence.
The examined lamps (mostly in an excellent state of conservation)
constitute one of the most numerous collections of this ceramic class
and are placed between the 5th and 7th century AD.
The specimens analyzed are mostly locally produced, for which a
typology based on shape and motifs is proposed, while the rest are
imported (mostly from other centers of Egypt). Although conditioned by
the scarcity of data available, the study of this collection therefore
constitutes an important basis for the outline of the trades active in
Antinoupolis in the pre-Islamic era.
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