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Abstract: The spread of the 5th-6th centuries North African lamps in
the former Roman provinces on Middle and Lower Danube. Romanian
historiography has tried to elucidate the cause, time and the way how the North
African Christian lamps (5th-6th centuries) reached the territory of the former
Dacian provinces; but the problem remained unsolved (Fig. 1)
Difficulty was also posed by the fact that part of the former Roman Empire (the
south-eastern european provinces including the former Dacian provinces) was
occupied by the Barbartians. Fig. 2-3. Very little is known about the fate of the
Romanised population from these territories.
The author (Valer Părău) of the present paper has gathered a large number of
the discovered North African Christian lamps, original from the space between
North Africa (the provinces Mauretania and Africa proconsuleris) and the
former Dacian provinces. Fig. 7. Knowing the types of the lamps (Fig. 6), the
production centres (Fig. 5), the datation of types and the „classical” routes of
transport (Fig. 4) the author tries to establish the possible routes on which these
North African lamps were transported and commercialized in these territories.
Fig. 9-13
The present paper is a case study: it gives information only on North African
Christian lamps, type Atlante VIII-X, which have on their flat discusses the
chrismon. Fig. 8
The conclusion is an interesting on: a confirmation of the reality that on the
territories occupied by the Barbarians in the South-East European former
provinces remained enclaves of Roman Christian populations, especially in the
former cities towards which these products (Christian lamps and other artifacts)
were directed.
The Barbarians were not using them. Knowing this situation, the Byzantine
State and the Church supplied these enclaves with products habitual for every
day life (ceramic vessels, oil, etc) and the Christian cult (lamps). |
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