[Regia-NA] Ancient Lighting Web Page

rmhowe mmagnusm at bellsouth.net
Tue Jan 11 16:41:42 EST 2005


Folo Watkins wrote:

> I haven't explored it in detail, but this looks like a neat site. It 
> came in over my revwar list, and it appears to deal with all sorts of 
> historical illumination: http://www.rushlight.org/
> 
> Cheers, Folo

Try looking through eBay.com antiquities for ancient lighting devices.
They frequently have some real items that are amazing.
You may find more pictures there than you will in books.

Roman and greek and palestininan terracotta oil lamps, metal
Byzantine oil lamps, wrought iron candlestands, etc.

Magnus



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