ANCIENT LAMPS FROM BALKANS AND BEYOND

With 50 articles, the present volume constitutes the most important collection of researches devoted to lamps and lighting in the ancient world and beyond. Two innovative researches introduce us to the technical problematics of the ancient fuels and wicks as well as of the real lighting power and diffusion provided by lamps in specific, well-studied archaeological spaces, a transdisciplinary approach made with the most modern techniques. Chronologically prehistory is represented by the very first lamp unearthed in Slovenia and dated to the 5th millennium BC as well as by the very aesthetic boat-shaped lamps of the Sardinian culture of the Nuraghi. Political and religious symbolism of light is analyzed through very complementary examples : on coins, on imperial representations, in the frame of Isis' and Mithra's cults and, later on, in churches and mosques. Material culture analysis is the core of the book, but offering a panorama extended to poorly known areas such as Mesopotamian sites in antiquity or Tajikistani sites during their golden medieval age. Naturally, studies on the Roman lamps of Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Albania constitute the hugest group of articles, twinned by neighboring regions like Moesia, Dacia, Dobrogea to the East, Pannonia, Venetia, Cisalpina, Campania and Apulia to the West, but also to more remote areas like Malta or Spain. Analysis on late antique lamps allow to draw very interesting parallels between Egnatia, Aquileia and the Slovenian, Dalmatian and Dacian discoveries. Last but not least, Egypt, the Near East and lamps found or "invented" in Rome at the 17th century are presented through unpublished materials from the museums of San Marino, Zürich and Pesaro.

Birgitta Lindros Wohl
Jean Bussière, In Loving Memory................................................................................
Verena Perko, Aleksandra Nestorović
Ex Oriente lux! The 4th International Congress of the International Lychnological Association (ILA), Ptuj, 15. – 19. 5. 2012.................................................................
Laurent Chrzanovski
“EX ORIENTE LUX”:
a benchmark for the International Lychnological Association.....................................
Angelo Bartoli, Rina Corzani
Le lucerne. Analisi e sperimentazione..........................................................................
Doina Benea
Spätrömische Lampen aus Dakien Im 3.-4 Jahrhundert..............................................
Valentina Caminneci
Et ornaverunt lampades suas.
Tipologia delle lucerne nell’iconografia delle virgines prudentes.................................
Francesca Ceci
La fiamma ardente.
La rappresentazione di luci, faci e fuochi sulle monete romane...................................
Paolo Cimadomo
Lighting system in Roman Syria and Mesopotamia....................................................
Julie Bonnéric
The Symbol of Light in Classical Mosques..................................................................
Marianna Colusso, Giulia Cesarin
Le lucerne vitree dei Fondi ex Cossar:
dal dato materiale alla problematica metodologica......................................................
Radovan Cunja
Late Antique Oil Lamps from Kapucinski vrt in Koper (Slovenia)..............................
Christiane De Micheli Schulthess
Illuminazione in Epoca Romana nel Canton Ticino (Svizzera)....................................
Anna Depalmas
Lucerne di ceramica e di bronzo della Sardegna nuragica............................................
Saša Djura Jelenko
Mayor’s Lamp from Colatio........................................................................................
Diana Dobreva
Imitazioni di Lucerne Africane: alcune osservazioni sul caso Aquileiese.......................
Exhlale Dobruna-Salihu
Bronze Lamps of Roman Time in Dardania. ..............................................................
Ivo Fadić, Anamarija Eterović Borzić
Late antique lamps from the Croatian coastal Region. ...............................................
Custode Silvio Fioriello
Note sulle lucerne fittili di età imperiale nella Apulia..................................................
Vito Giannico
Lucerne tardoantiche di produzione orientale rinvenute a Egnatia..............................
Cristina Giovagnetti
Dal delta del Nilo al Monte Titano: un‘inedita
collezione di lucerne egizie nel Museo di Stato di San Marino.....................................
Elisa Maria Grassi
Light from all around.
Trades and cultural influences in ancient lamps from Malta........................................
Ana-Cristina Hamat
Clay lamps from south- west of Roman Dacia. Local production centers..................
Kristina Jelinčić Vučković
Lucerne romane trovate a Ilok (Pannonia Inferior).....................................................
Mladen Jovičić, Ljubomir Jevtović
Contribution to the study of cult of Bacchus on Viminacium:
terracotta lamps with relief depictions of Bacchus mask, thyrsus and syrinx................
Lambrini Koutoussaki
Lampes choisies de la collection archéologique de l’Université de Zürich (Suisse).......
Bine Kramberger
The oldest lamp of Slovenia. Oval-shaped ceramic find from the
Settlement Zgornje Radvanje (last third of the 5th millennium BC).........................
Aleksandra Krauze-Kołodziej
Light and Luminosity in Early Medieval Mosaics on the Example of the Representation of the Last Judgement on the West Wall of Torcello’s Basilica............
Slavica Krunić
Earliest lamps produced in Italy discovered in Singidunum........................................
Vinka Matijević
Findings of Late Antique Oil-lamps between Krka and Cetina Rivers.........................
Maria Elisa Micheli, Anna Santucci
Veri e falsi nella collezione di lucerne di Giovan Battista Passeri (1694-1780).............
Neda Mirkovic-Maric
Contribution to the study of Roman lamps from the Upper Moesian limes................
Dorina Moullou, Lambros T. Doulos, Frangiskos V. Topalis
Lux in vitro: Artificial lighting conditions in houses of antiquity.................................
George Nuţu, Lucrețiu Mihăilescu Bîrliba
Lighting devices from Ancient (L)Ibida and territory..................................................
Ivana Ožanić Roguljić, Ana Konestra
Rassegna topografica e cronologica delle lucerne fittili romane dalla regione del Quarnero (Croazia).....................................................
Daniela Palmisano
Tipi iconografici su lucerne tardoantiche da Egnatia...................................................
Elisa Panero
Lucerne come simbolo di luce nelle presenze cultuali della Cisalpina occidentale. Il caso del Piemonte............................................
Elisa Panero, Ilaria Frontori
Le lucerne delle Terme Milano di Gortina (Creta)......................................................
Elisa Panero, Chiarastella Spadaro
Lamps from the city centre:
trade and productions in ancient Nora (Cagliari, Italy)...............................................
Jean-Louis Podvin
Le luminaire de l’Iseum de Pompei.............................................................................
Andrej Preložnik, Aleksandra Nestorović
Figural oil-lamps with embracing couple: Origin and eaning...................................................................................................
Alejandro Quevedo, Victoria García-Aboal
Riflessioni su un insieme di lucerne bollate da Carthago Nova (II-III sec. d.C.)..........
Mateja Ravnik, Mojca Jančar, Iva Ciglar
Medieval illuminants from the Upper Maribor castle, Slovenia.
Brief summary of preliminary results........................................................................... 
Jutta Ronke
Lichtspiel-Theater? Zu Funktion und
Ästhetik beleuchtbaren Inventars im Mithraskult........................................................
Xavier Roulet
L’éclairage de l’espace domestique dans l’Italie romaine:
étude préliminaire à la restitution en 3D.....................................................................
Mira A. Ružić
Notes on Roman Lighting..........................................................................................
Sylvia Sakl-Oberthaler
Römische Lampen aus Vindobona – Relaunch der
Forschungen und Ergänzungen...................................................................................
Zrinka Simic-Kanaet
Roman Lamps from Tilurium.....................................................................................
Giuseppina Spagnolo Garzoli
Lucerne fittili nei corredi funerari del Piemonte antico:
significati escatologici e culturali.................................................................................
Milica Tapavički-Ilić, Mirjana Vojvoda
Oil-lamp typology from the Roman cemetery “Kod Bresta” -
Viminacium, excavations 1985-1992..........................................................................
Paola Ventura, Claudio Capelli, Annalisa Giovannini
Un gruppo di lucerne di imitazione africana.
Tracce di un punto di vendita?....................................................................................
Tina Žerjal
Oil lamps at vila rustica Školarice (Koper, Slovenija)...................................................
Bernarda Županek, Mateja Ravnik, Alenka Miškec
Roman oil lamps as political messages:
images of victory, valour and imperial power...............................................................
Pierre Siméon
Quelques lampes du IXe au XIe siècle, découvertes à Hulbuk (Tadjikistan), essai
de chronologie et de repartition..................................................................................