The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art. Terracotta oil lamps /

"The fourth catalogue in a series that documents the renowned Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, this book focuses on the collection's 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Byzantine periods. The rich iconography on many of these common, everyday...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Lightfoot, C. S. (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (مؤلف)
مؤلفون آخرون: Hollein, Max (writer of foreword.)
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في:New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2021]
©2021.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Director's foreword / Max Hollein
  • Preface / Seán Hemingway
  • Acknowledgements / Christopher S. Lightfoot
  • Introduction: The collection
  • Other collections of terracotta lamps from Cyprus
  • Typology
  • Decoration
  • Cesnola, tombs, and lamps
  • Makers' marks on Roman lamps
  • Notes on the catalogue
  • Map of Cyprus
  • Catalogue. Saucer-shaped lamps and related objects (Cat. 1-24)
  • Greek lamp (Cat. 25)
  • Hellenistic Lamps (Cat. 26-73). Wheel-made, Cat. 26-39 ; Mold-made, Cat. 40-73
  • Roman lamps: plain discus (Cat. 74-123). Undecorated discus, Cat. 74-114 ; Discus with radiating lines, Cat. 115-123
  • Roman lamps: rosette discus (Cat. 124-176)
  • Roman lamps: wreath discus (Cat. 177-204)
  • Roman lamps: animals (Cat. 205-270)
  • Roman lamps: daily life (Cat. 271-282)
  • Roman lamps: games, races, and entertainment (Cat. 283-340)
  • Roman lamps: gods and myth (Cat. 341-402)
  • Roman lamps: Jewish and Christian (Cat. 403-416)
  • Miscellaneous lamps (Cat. 417-453)
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Makers' marks on Roman lamps in the Cesnola Collection
  • Concordance.