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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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   What are oil lamps used for?

   • Oil lamps are a form of lighting, and were used as an alternative to candles before the use of electric lights. Starting in 1780, the Argand lamp quickly replaced other oil lamps still in their basic ancient form. These in turn were replaced by the kerosene lamp in about 1850.

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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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   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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   Who invented oil lamps?

   • Ami Argand, a Swiss chemist is credited with first developing the principle of using an oil lamp with a hollow circular wick surrounded by a glass chimney in 1783. Early lighting fuels consisted of olive oil, beeswax, fish oil, whale oil, sesame oil, nut oil, and similar substances.

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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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   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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   Lamp, device for producing illumination, originally a vessel containing a wick soaked in combustible material and subsequently such other light-producing instruments as gas and electric lamps. Modern lamps and lighting began with the invention of the incandescent electric lamp about 1870.

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   Oil lamps are a form of lighting, and were used as an alternative to candles before the use of electric lights. Starting in 1780, the Argand lamp quickly replaced other oil lamps still in their basic ancient form. These in turn were replaced by the kerosene lamp in about 1850.

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    Jul 2, 2019 · Early lighting fuels consisted of olive oil, beeswax, fish oil, whale oil, sesame oil, nut oil, and similar substances. These were the most commonly used fuels until the late 18th century. However, the ancient Chinese collected natural gas in skins that were used for illumination.

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    Lamps in Antiquity. Oil Lamps in the Ancient World. For thousands of years small oil lamps were used for light in homes, temples, taverns, and tombs. At least as far back as 3,500 BC, oil lamps are known to have been in use, though crude by standards reached in the first few centuries AD.