Abstract
Roman Lamps from the National Museum of History of Ukraine
Highlights
The National Museum of History of Ukraine contains a representative collection of antiquities, consisting of more than 20 thousand items
The lamps available in the collection can be divided as follows: handmade and molded, the latter are distinguished by the presence or absence of plots on the discuses: lamps with the image of warriors and their attributes, lamps with groove ornamentation on the rim, raised points ornaments and rosettes, without ornamentation and etc
Among lamps of the collection there is a significant part of local items, which are copies of imported types of lamps
Summary
The article deals with a collection of ancient lamps from the funds of the National Museum of History of Ukraine, covering the period of the first centuries AD. We can say that the dating for lamps with rosettes on the discus from our collection The one lamp with thick slip covering and one raised point near nozzle has not found analogies yet, though its clay is similar to Italian workshops The ornamentation around the discus with ovolos and leaves is very common for Roman lamps Their heart-shaped nozzles can tell that the date is not earlier than the second half of I—II c. Our sample has a brown thick slip covering with gray clay that probably can evidence its Egyptian origin The dating of this fragment due to the shape of the nozzle is no earlier than the second half of I—II c.
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