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     • They were a crucial part of life in many cultures. Practically speaking, they were a source of portable artificial light, much like a candle or modern flashlight. They were also important in sacred settings. They were frequently used in ceremonies, given as votive offerings, or placed in burial chambers.
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   What were Roman lamps used for?

   • Roman metal lamp. Lamps were used by ancient people in a variety of ways, both indoors and outdoors. They served utilitarian, ritualistic, and symbolic purposes. Business owners, such as innkeepers and barkeepers, used oil lamps to light their businesses as well as the streets nearby.

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   Why did ancient Rome use oil lamps?

   • In religious contexts, oil lamps served the simple utilitarian function of lighting temples and shrines, and they served a number of ritualistic functions, as well. Many of the religious practices in ancient Rome involved some form of ritual sacrifice or offering.

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   How did the Greeks create an oil lamp?

   • The Greeks were among the most prolific of the early lamp makers. They created oil lamps by throwing the lamp bodies on a potter's wheel and then hand attaching spouts and handles. Another innovation they utilized was glaze, which they used to slow the inevitable seepage of oil into the porous clay body.

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   Did ancient Romans use vegetable oil to light a lamp?

   • Though archaeologists in France have found a 20,000-year-old lamp with vegetablefiber residue inside, the use of vegetable oils for lighting did not take hold until Greek and especially Roman times. The favored variety of fuel among Romans was olive oil with a little salt that dried the oil and helped make the light brighter.

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   What type of lamp was used in the 1860s?

   • Oil burning carriage lamps provided a model for the first bicycle lamps in the 1860s. Jerusalem oil lamp: The clay has a characteristic black color because it was burned without oxygen. Usually of high quality. [citation needed] Herodian oil lamp: Considered to be used mainly by Jews. Wheel-made, rounded, and have a nozzle with concave sides.

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   What is a pottery lamp made of?

   • Pottery lamps were made of clay. At first, they were simple wheel-thrown saucers. The wick, often of flax, was immersed in the oil and draped on the saucer's rim. In most areas, olive oil was the favoured fuel, but other vegetable oils and even animal fats could be used as well.

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   Three forms of lighting existed, in order of their appearance: torches, lamps, and candles, all of which used animal fat or, in the case of lamps in the most advanced ancient societies, vegetable oil.

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   Curved stone lamps were found in places dated to the 10th millennium BC (Mesolithic, Middle Stone Age Period, c. 10,300–8000 BC). The oldest stone-oil lamp was found in Lascaux in 1940 in a cave that was inhabited 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.

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   At the same time that these almond shaped lamps were in use in the Middle East, in the Mediterranean, North Africa had become a major production center for oil lamps. Tunisia and Carthage were especially noted for their red-ware lamps, which were exported all over the Holy Roman Empire.

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   Oil lamps are ubiquitous at archaeological sites across the Mediterranean region. They were a crucial part of life in many cultures. Practically speaking, they were a source of portable artificial light, much like a candle or modern flashlight. They were also important in sacred settings.

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   Uses. Lamps were used by ancient people in a variety of ways, both indoors and outdoors. They served utilitarian, ritualistic, and symbolic purposes. Business owners, such as innkeepers and barkeepers, used oil lamps to light their businesses as well as the streets nearby.

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10. www.journals.uchicago.edu › doi › 10ILLUMINATING THE PAST: Exploring the Function of Ancient Lamps

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    This article enhances our understanding of how the oil lamps found throughout the ancient Near East were used by the ancients. By testing two kinds of replica oil lamps (open and closed), the authors demonstrate that these lamps gave off relatively little light.

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    In general, the early lamps, through the Persian period, are large—up to five inches in length—while the later lamps are much smaller, some no more than three inches in length. The photographs accompanying this article do not show relative size; their scales vary. Middle Bronze I (2250–2000 B.C.) Four wick-rests; four-flap rim; flat base.