Late Antique oil-lamps with Early Christian images from the Archaeological Museum in Split

U ovom radu kataloški je obrađeno 114 svjetiljaka iz depoa Rimskoprovincijalne zbirke te još 20 iz stalnog postava Arheološkog muzeja u Splitu.1 Riječ je o kasnoantičkim svjetiljkama, sačuvanima u cijelosti ili u ulomcima, koje su na disku ukrašene reljefnim motivima s ranokršćanskom simbolikom. Najčešće se radi o prikazima monograma, križa, lava, psa, zeca, ribe, pijetla, palme i biblijskih scena. Tipološka klasifikacija postavljena u ovom radu slijedi podjelu Johna W. Hayesa pa se prema tome svjetiljke datiraju u rasponu od poč. 4. st. do oko godine 550.This work contains catalogue treatment of 114 oil-lamps from the storage depot of the Roman Provincial Collection and 20 additional pieces from the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Split.1 These are oil-lamps from Late Antiquity, preserved in whole or in fragments, which have Early Christian symbolic motifs rendered in relief on the discus. Most often these are monograms, crosses, lions, hounds, hares, cockerels, palm fronds and biblical scenes. The typological classification established in this paper adheres to the division done by John W. Hayes, so in this regard the oil-lamps have been dated to a period ranging from the beginning of the fourth century to the roughly the year 550