Representaciones iconográficas en lucernas romanas de la Región de Murcia
Abstract
With the systematic employment, from the first century on, of moulds for the production of ceramic oil lamps, the plates were without decoration but slowly they became decorated with a rich and various repertoire of iconography. This paper presents a series of decorated lampplates from different parts of Murcia but mainly from Carthago Nova, and which belong to the first to fifth centuries AD. We have divided the material into eigth groups, according the kind of iconography: I. Animal motifs. II. Allegories of gods and myths. III. Gladiatorial games. IV. Scenes from everyday life. V. Erotic motifs. VI. Geometrical and vegetative motifs. VII. Various motifs difficult to classify. VIII. Motifs of christian symbols. Finally, there is a catalogue of all the pieces studied in which is shown their origins and where they are to be found now with a statistical analysis and a bibliographical index.
Downloads
1. The authors non-exclusively assign the exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, communication and transformation) to the magazine.
2. The works published in this magazine are subject to the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC By SA 4.0). Therefore, they can be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly displayed, provided that:
i) the authorship and the original source of its publication (journal, editorial and URL of the work) are cited, thus allowing its recognition.
ii) it is allowed to remix, transform or create from the material while maintaining the same license as the original.
Note: Articles prior to 2022 incorrectly display the CC by SA license in the abstract page. They are under a CC by NC ND license as embedded in the article pdfs. Articles published in 2022 and after are under the CC by SA license.
3. Self-archiving conditions. Authors are allowed and encouraged to electronically disseminate the pre-print (version before being evaluated) and/or post-print (version evaluated and accepted for publication) versions of their works before publication, as it favors their publication. Earlier circulation and diffusion and with it a possible increase in its citation and reach among the academic community. Color RoMEO: verde.
