Affiliation:
1. Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of clay lamps during late antiquity and to explore the reasons that may have influenced it. Moreover, it focuses on the probable reasons leading to the dominance of mould-made lamps during the first centuries of our era and the possible causes which provoked their disappearance at the end of late antiquity.
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