Roman, Early Byzantine and Islamic Bronze Lamps from Southern Anatolia

  • Ergün Laflı
  • Maurizio Buora
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.82.3.431-458
Keywords: Bronze lamps, Roman, Early Byzantine, Islamic, Cilicia, Hatay, Mardin, Southern Anatolia, Turkey

Abstract

This paper presents some thirty unpublished bronze lamps that are housed in local museums of Cilicia, Hatay and Mardin in southern Turkey. The chosen methodology of this paper is to compare these lamps typologically, dating them by reference to the extensively published examples by Maria Xanthopoulou, 2010. The dating of our lamps does not generally extend beyond the Early Byzantine period, although some isolated samples could be later. In addition, they belong to a very homogenous group because of their restricted area of origin.
Thus, our awareness of the objects enriches the general overview already offered by the latest European and Mediterranean studies on this topic. The Southern Anatolian workshops initially based their work on Italic patterns, were later influenced by the Byzantine art of Constantinople, and, after the Muslim conquest, by Islamic models.

Author Biographies

Ergün Laflı

Ergün Laflı, Professor of Classical Archaeology at Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, chairing the Division for Medieval Archaeology. Born in 1975 in Mersin, Turkey, he holds a B.A. degree from the University of Ankara (1996), an M.A. from the University of Tübingen (1999) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne (2003), all in classical archaeology. Since 2006, he has edited or co-authored five books on Roman and Early Byzantine metal figurines, glass, inscriptions etc. from Anatolia. Between 2005 and 2009, he directed archaeological field work in Hadrianopolis, a Roman and Early Byzantine site in north-central Turkey. He has organized numerous archaeological congresses in Izmir and published various material groups from Classical Anatolia.

Maurizio Buora

Maurizio Buora, Ph.D., is an independent researcher. For many years, he directed the Archaeological Museum of Udine and the Civic Museums in the same city, carrying out numerous excavations and also organizing many exhibitions in Italy and abroad. After retirement (2009), he taught for some time at the local university. He has been responsible for nearly six hundred publications, many of which are dedicated to the fibulae, especially of the Roman period.

Published
2014-12-13
How to Cite
Laflı, E., & Buora, M. (2014). Roman, Early Byzantine and Islamic Bronze Lamps from Southern Anatolia. Archiv orientální, 82(3), 431-458. https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.82.3.431-458
Issue
Vol. 82 No. 3 (2014)
Section
Research Article

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