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Laurent Chrzanovski

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The Forcart Collection of lamps from Fayum

2019

The Forcart collection of Ptolemaic, Roman and Late Roman lamps from Fayum is today the largest single-collector Egyptian lychnological corpus owned by a Swiss public institution, the Geneva Museum of Art and History, which acquired it in 1923. The importance of the 145 lamps in this collection is twofold. Firstly, all the artifacts were offered to Max Kurt Forcart by the different directors of excavations operating legally in the Fayum area during the first two decades of the 20th century, giving us a clear—even if generic—finding area, contrary to collections purchased from the various antiquaries. And secondly, even if incomplete compared to the richness and diversity of the Fayum worksh…

010506 paleontology060102 archaeologymedia_common.quotation_subject0601 history and archaeology06 humanities and the artsArt01 natural sciences0105 earth and related environmental sciencesmedia_commonAncient lamps from Spain to India. Trade, influences, local traditions
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Tibi diem natalem felicem optamus, Marielle! Tribute to Marielle Martiniani-Reber on her 65th anniversary.

2019

Essay on the life achievement of Marielle Martiniani-Reber, tribute on her 65th anniversary.

010506 paleontology060102 archaeologymedia_common.quotation_subjectArt historyTribute0601 history and archaeology06 humanities and the artsArt01 natural sciences0105 earth and related environmental sciencesmedia_commonAncient lamps from Spain to India. Trade, influences, local traditions
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Ioannis Motsianos and Karen Garnett (Eds), "Glass, wax and metal: lighting technologies in late antique, byzantine and medieval times", Oxford: Archa…

2019

Book review Ioannis Motsianos, Karen S. Garnett (eds), Glass, Wax and Metal: Lighting Technologies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Times, Oxford (Archaeopress), 2019, 266 pages, ill. Color and b/w ISBN 978-1-78969-216-7 ISBN 978-1-78969-217-4 (e-Pdf)

WaxAntiquevisual_artmedia_common.quotation_subjectvisual_art.visual_art_mediumArtAncient historyByzantine architecturemedia_commonAncient lamps from Spain to India. Trade, influences, local traditions
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