M.Brando, La suppellettile da illuminazione, in A. Sebastiani et alii (a cura di), Diana Umbronensis a Scoglietto. Santuario, Territorio e Cultura Materiale (200 a.C.-550 d.C.), Alberese Archaeological Project Monographs Series, 1, Oxford 2015, pp. 114-224 (original) (raw)
A. Sebastiani et alii (a cura di), Diana Umbronensis a Scoglietto. Santuario, Territorio e Cultura Materiale (200 a.C.-550 d.C.), Alberese Archaeological Project Monographs Series, 1, Oxford 2015
Abstract: The high percentage of oil lamps among the pottery finds in the area of Scoglietto Sanctuary is particularly important, because the presence of abundant light fittings on this site clearly needs to be examined in relation to the prac-tices of ritual and worship. Two main contexts are considered in this chapter. The first is connected with the substantial reconstruction of the Temple at the end of the 2nd century AD that led to the accumulation of a considerable number of lamps in a single location, which were probably used as ex-voto. By contrast, the second concerns the late-Roman levels of destruction and abandonment (second half of the 4th - first half of the 5th century AD), in which the remarkable quan-tity of lamps found provides a glimpse of the continuity of pagan worship in the “Christian” age. Here, we examine, the provenance of the lamps and the routes they travelled before reaching Scoglietto and we will try to understand what these objects tell us about those who placed them in the temple, between the end of the 2nd century AD and Late Antiquity.
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