ARCHAIC EAST GREEK LAMPS IN THE PONTIC AREA
ARCHAIC EAST GREEK LAMPS IN THE PONTIC AREA

Summary/Abstract: As in the case of pottery vessels, the East Greek settlements of the Northern Black Sea provide a representative overview of the main types of lamps distributed by their motherland cities of Ionia all along the archaic period. Unfortunately, the identication of the significant exporting centres appears somewhat uneasy, because the motherland finds still remain unequally studied, except perhaps those of the Samian Heraion. Typologically, these Greek lamps from the Black Sea area constitute a rather diversified whole, most predominantly of Eastern Greek origin, within which some well-defined models stand out, intentionally mass produced for the export markets, on which they were often supplemented by some colonial imitations, such as those evidenced in Berezan itself, of a shape recalling South-Ionian originals and already attested in between in Apollonia.

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