Original scientific paper

Oil-Lamps from the Graeco- Hellenistic Collection of the Archaeological Museum in Split

Marina Ugarković

Abstract

This work presents a small group of ceramic oillamps
in the depot of the Graeco-Hellenistic Collection
of the Archaeological Museum in Split. This
group consists of fourteen oil-lamps which are a part
of the so-called old inventory, of which twelve originated
on the island of Vis (no. 1, 3, 5-14), while two
were found in Salona (no. 2 and 4). A typological
analysis suggests that the majority of these oil-lamps,
made during the period from the fourth (fifth?) to
the first centuries BC, were the products of different
pottery workshops of the eastern and central Mediterranean,
while the remaining, smaller portion may
be of local origin, from the island of Vis. The author
also reviews the previously published Hellenistic oil-lamps from Issa, Pharos and Salona, so that together
with the examples published here, there are now 48
known and analyzed oil-lamps from central Dalmatia.
The imported oil-lamps confirm, but also supplement,
previous knowledge on the circulation of pottery items
during the aforementioned period in central Dalmatia,
while the oil-lamps made on Vis provide new insight
into Issa’s pottery production in the second and first
centuries BC. The most oil-lamps were discovered in
the necropolises of Martvilo and Vlaška njiva, where
they were laid in graves together with the deceased.
This custom in Issa was best documented in the
second and first centuries BC.

Keywords

Graeco-Hellenistic Collection; Late Classical and Hellenistic periods; oil-lamps; Vis (Issa); necropolises of Martvilo and Vlaška njiva; Hellenistic Asia Minor import; local (Issean) Late Hellenistic ceramic products; burial rite of Issa

Hrčak ID:

133067

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/133067

Publication date:

23.12.2014.

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