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AUTHOR
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…
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.
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)