{"id":4063,"date":"2016-08-20T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambientecultura.it\/en\/?page_id=4063"},"modified":"2016-08-20T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T15:35:17","slug":"p43-common-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ambientecultura.it\/en\/3659-2\/p43-common-artifacts\/","title":{"rendered":"P43 Common artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P43<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Common artifacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The oil lamps<\/strong><br \/>\nThe oil lamps were the main instruments to create light in the Roman world: the most common ones\u00a0were in <em>terracotta<\/em>, the most precious in bronze or silver. They were constituted by a fuel chamber\u00a0filled with oil from the central hole that stoked the wicked on the nozzle.<br \/>\nThey could be found into each room of the house and they were often used as grave good, symbol<br \/>\nof the light that accompanied the deceased in the afterlife.<br \/>\nThe collection of oil lamps of this museum contains only <em>terracotta<\/em> examples. The most<br \/>\nrepresented typology is the one \u201c<em>a volute<\/em>\u201d with an angled or round nozzle and the richly garnished<br \/>\ndiscus (showcase 16, n. 10-11). In the second half of the I century AC, a simpler type \u2013 the discus<br \/>\none \u2013 is introduced (showcase 16, n. 14): in these cases, the handles disappear and the discus does<br \/>\nnot show decorations. Another important type attested in Alba is the so-called <em>\u201ca firma<\/em>\u201d (showcase<br \/>\n16, n. 12-13) (FORTIS, COMVNI, ATIMETI, STROBILI), that were used also in other areas of the<br \/>\nnorthern Italy. Therefore, many laboratories produced this kind of object in the northern part of the\u00a0peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Unguentaria<\/em> and probes<\/strong><br \/>\nRomans used to sprinkle scented oils on their bodies. In a first moment, the monopoly of the<br \/>\nproduction of essences belonged to the Eastern, but from the Early Imperial Age productive centres<br \/>\ngrew in Italy. The oils, as the medicaments, were preserved in blown-glass balsam-containers: a<br \/>\ntechnique introduced in the Augustan Age.<br \/>\nThe fusiform shape (showcase 15, n.21-34) is the widest spread, though the round, cone and date<br \/>\nones are rare (showcase 15, n 6-7). The smallest examples could be useful in the retail trade or in<br \/>\nthe individual exploitation; the biggest ones in the wholesales.<br \/>\nThe probes \u2013 smooth or spiral-shaped glass rods \u2013 were needed to mix the ointments and to pull out\u00a0them from the container (showcase 15, n. 13-19)<\/p>\n<p><em>1) Oil lamp on a bronze candelabrum from Pompei (from Homo Faber, 1999)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>2) Bronze oil lamp from Bene Vagienna<\/em><br \/>\n<em>3) Glass artifacts from the different necropolis of Alba Pompeia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P43 Common artifacts The oil lamps The oil lamps were the main instruments to create light in the Roman world: the most common ones\u00a0were in terracotta, the most precious in bronze or silver. They were constituted by a fuel chamber\u00a0filled with oil from the central hole that stoked the wicked on the nozzle. 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