Excavations at Saraçhane in Istanbul, 2. The Pottery

Princeton – Dumbarton Oaks 1992

Catalogue des lampes en terre cuite du Musée archéologique d’Istanbul, 1. Epoques protohistorique, archaïque, classique et hellénistique

(Varia anatolica, 6, 1)

Paris 1995

Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes d’Istanbul

ISBN : 2-906053-38-4

200 pp. 79 pl. Ill. n/b

***467 lampes étudiées***

Antikçagda aydinlatma araçlari

Istanbul 1998

35 pp. Ill. b/w

Die römischen Lampen aus Pergamon

(Pergamenische Forschungen Band 13)

Berlin 2000

ISBN 3-11-016871-5

223 pp. 37 pl. Ill. b/w

*** 1159 lamps studied ***

Lighting in early byzantium

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection Publications 11

Dumbarton Oaks 2009

Lamps studied: +
Pages: 118, numerous ill.
Editor: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-317-3
ISBN-10: 0-88402-317-6

Editor’s website: http://www.doaks.org

Bronze Lamps in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum

(BAR International Series 1436)

Oxford 2001

Lamps studied: 205
Pages: 131 pp. Ill. b/w
Editor: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 1-84171-872-6

PRICE : 27.00 £

Editor’a website: http://www.hadrianbooks.co.uk/

Editor’s description :

“The bronze lamps in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, consisting of a variety of material from the Ottoman Empire – Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon and Macedonia – were acquired through confiscation, purchase or in a few cases from excavations (Cos, Lindos, Sidon, Tel-Taannek and Thrace). The collection illustrates the range of bronze lamp production in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Archaic to the Late Roman world. The collection is particularly rich in lamps from the Early Christian period and also includes polycandela for glass lamps.

Although provenance is often lacking, the Istanbul lamps nevertheless offer a useful and interesting body of material for the student of lighting technology in the ancient world. Until the 1960s, from almost every corner of Turkey all kinds and types of object were being brought to the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. However, with the new regulations in force, the objects are now being collected in local museums and not much is received by the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. The present catalogue lists metal lamps, lampstands, polycandela, lanterns, suspension chains, and lamplids which have entered the museum’s collection up to the end of 1998. Only a few examples of the collection are published.”