To Light Antiquity: Perspectives for Research on Clay Oil Lamps from the Agora in Nea Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

The Necropolis at Tell el-Murra site, situated in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta just several kilometres east of Tell el-Farkha, contains 22 marked vessels distributed in nine graves. The tall jars discovered there (wine jars and jars decorated with half-bows) were the most commonly marked items, but signs were also found on other types of vessels: broadshouldered jars, a barrel-shaped jar, small jars with broad-shoulders, redcoated plates and a bowl. In the course of excavations carried out between 2011 and 2016 at Tell el-Farkha cemetery four vessels with potmarks were found. Marks from both cemeteries correspond with signs published in corpuses from other sites dated to the Early Dynastic period: Tell el

Looking for Ephesian workshops: an integrated petrographic, geochemical, and chrono-typological approach to Late Hellenistic Ephesos lamps

“…16-18;Bailey 1975: 91;Drougou 2012;Kajzer 2013;Zhuravlev and Zhuravleva 2014;Ugarković 2016: 12-14;Chrzanovski 2020;James 2020;Sheiko 2020). So far, local imitations have been mainly hypothesized on the basis of macroscopic criteria (e.g., typology and macro-fabrics), while archaeometric data and evidence of in situ primary productions (e.g., kilns, molds, or wasters) are almost totally lacking both in Asia Minor and beyond with the exception of Nea Paphos on Cyprus (Kajzer 2013(Kajzer , 2016(Kajzer , 2017.…”