Gerulata: the Lamps

What should a catalogue of archaeological material contain? This book is a comprehensive index of 210 lamps from the Roman fort of Gerulata (present-day Bratislava-Rusovce, Slovakia) and its adjoining civilian settlement. The lamps were excavated during the last 50 years from the houses, cemeteries, barracks and fortifications of this Roman outpost on the Limes Romanus and span almost three centuries from AD 80 to AD 350. For the first time, they are published in full and in color with detailed analysis of lamp types, workshop marks and discus scenes. Roman lamps were a distinctive form of int.

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""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Legend""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""1. Preface""; ""2. Lampmaking Throughout the Ages and the Romans in Gerulata""; ""2.1 History of lampmaking""; ""2.1.1 The first lamps""; ""2.1.2 The Greek re-inventions � nozzle and covered bowl""; ""2.1.3 Roman light""; ""2.1.4 The Romans acquire lamps""; ""2.1.5 Roman lamps in Gerulata""; ""2.2 Rome, Pannonia and the archaeological history of Gerulata""; ""2.2.1 The geography of Pannonia""; ""2.2.2 The literary sources""; ""2.2.3 Early Roman conquest of Pannonia""; ""2.2.4 Maroboduus""

""2.2.5 Rome stalls""""2.2.6 Laying the ground for the future province""; ""2.2.7 Gerulata and its environs""; ""2.2.8 The first auxiliary fort""; ""2.2.9 The creation of the limes in Pannonia, and the second century""; ""2.2.10 The Marcomannic Wars""; ""2.2.11 The third century and the destruction of Gerulata""; ""2.2.12 Renewal in the ad 270s and the fourth century""; ""2.2.13 Valentinian and the final phase of Gerulata""; ""3. Catalogue of Lamps""; ""How to read this catalogue:""; ""Table of lamps from Gerulata""; ""Bildlampen""; ""3.1 Loeschcke type I � Volute lamps""

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