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subject	book bibliographic info
lamp	Faßbeck and Killebrew (2016), Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology: VeHinnei Rachel - Essays in honor of Rachel Hachlili, 174, 393, 394 Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 163, 217 Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 1, 135, 170, 203, 295, 328
lamp, chione, athenian producer	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 79
lamp, deposits, hammat gader, oil	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 813, 814
lamp, divination	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 17, 18, 99, 103, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 165, 166
lamp, divination, ritual, of	Corrigan and Rasimus (2013), Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, 65
lamp, from, cologne, and isis-hathor-aphrodite, isiac	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 195
lamp, harpocrates, with sun-disc, on boat-shaped	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 195, 202, 209, 211
lamp, lychnomancy divination	Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 165, 166
lamp, metaphorical	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 93, 211, 212
lamp, moon-	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 249
lamp, of jupiter-ammon aenona	Bricault et al. (2007), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 317
lamp, of the body, eyes	Cain (2023), Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God, 40
lamp, pollution	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 5
lamp, sabbath	Avery-Peck, Chilton, and Scott Green (2014), A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner , 254
lamp, soteria, athenian producer	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 79
lamp, stand, alexander the great his	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 238
lampe, g. w. h.	Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 172
lampe, geoffrey w.h.	Langworthy (2019), Gregory of Nazianzus’ Soteriological Pneumatology, 92
lampe, kurt	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 384, 395, 400, 402, 583, 584, 681
lampe, p.	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 260 Kraemer (2010), Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, 48, 49, 51, 53, 91, 182, 218
lampe, peter	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 188, 195, 196
lamps	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer (2022), Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity, 423, 512, 525 Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022), Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas, 5, 121, 163, 169, 171, 224, 235, 405, 451, 510 Eliav (2023), A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean, 69, 118 Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 245, 246, 249 Hachlili (2005), Practices And Rites In The Second Temple Period, 385, 388, 437, 485 Nutzman (2022), Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine 78, 81, 82 Rubenstein (2018), The Land of Truth: Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings, 53, 54, 55, 56, 63, 64, 65 Schwartz (2008), 2 Maccabees, 526 Stuckenbruck (2007), 1 Enoch 91-108, 628 Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 7, 9, 78, 79, 293
lamps, as cult objects	Hahn Emmel and Gotter (2008), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 169, 174
lamps, brothels, and	McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 203
lamps, burning	Stuckenbruck (2007), 1 Enoch 91-108, 628
lamps, darom type	Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 25, 63
lamps, discus, lamps, oil	Keddie (2019), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins, 214
lamps, epidauros asklepieion, lex sacra concerning sacred	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 309
lamps, extinguished by temple servant, aristophaness plutus incubation scene	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 238, 259, 308, 309
lamps, fountain of the, corinth	Kahlos (2019), Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450, 171
lamps, herodian, lamps, oil	Keddie (2019), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins, 47, 64, 173
lamps, imhotep, use of sacred	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 411
lamps, in pompeii, and sarapis	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 306
lamps, in relation to egyptian gods	Bricault et al. (2007), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 380
lamps, isis boat lamps,	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 7, 77
lamps, isis pelagia, on	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 196, 259, 261, 264, 326, 344
lamps, lucernae	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 673
lamps, magical implements	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 17, 118, 120, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 144, 147, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 157, 175, 180
lamps, oil	Keddie (2019), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins, 5, 214 Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 63, 111, 112, 128
lamps, on sabbath	Rubenstein (2018), The Land of Truth: Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings, 59
lamps, pagan, pagans	Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 111, 128, 359
lamps, pompeii, iseum in	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 306
lamps, pompeii, iseum in boat-shaped	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 195
lamps, religion, greek, use of sacred	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 308, 309, 411
lamps, saqqâra, general, use of sacred	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 409, 410, 411
lamps, shaped as boats, isis, on	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 46, 195
lamps, use at cyrene sanctuary of iatros	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 308, 309
lamps, use at hammat gader	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 811, 813, 814
lamps, use in greek and egyptian religion	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 308, 309, 411
lamps/torches	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 163, 164, 171, 183, 184, 194, 196, 202, 224, 280, 377

List of validated texts:

10 validated results for "lamp"

1. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ritual, of lamp divination • lamp divination • magical implements, lamps

Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 135; Corrigan and Rasimus (2013), Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, 65

2. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 16.164 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Lampe, P. • lamps, oil • pagan, pagans, lamps

Found in books: Kraemer (2010), Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, 91; Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 128

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16.164 ἐὰν δέ τις φωραθῇ κλέπτων τὰς ἱερὰς βίβλους αὐτῶν ἢ τὰ ἱερὰ χρήματα ἔκ τε σαββατείου ἔκ τε ἀνδρῶνος, εἶναι αὐτὸν ἱερόσυλον καὶ τὸν βίον αὐτοῦ ἐνεχθῆναι εἰς τὸ δημόσιον τῶν ̔Ρωμαίων.'' None

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16.164 But if any one be caught stealing their holy books, or their sacred money, whether it be out of the synagogue or public school, he shall be deemed a sacrilegious person, and his goods shall be brought into the public treasury of the Romans.'' None

3. New Testament, Matthew, 6.22-6.23 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Burning, Lamps • Lamps • eyes, lamp of the body

Found in books: Cain (2023), Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God, 40; Stuckenbruck (2007), 1 Enoch 91-108, 628

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6.22 Ὁ λύχνος τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν ὁ ὀφθαλμός. ἐὰν οὖν ᾖ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ἁπλοῦς, ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου φωτινὸν ἔσται· ^6.23 ἐὰν δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου πονηρὸς ᾖ, ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου σκοτινὸν ἔσται. εἰ οὖν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἐν σοὶ σκότος ἐστίν, τὸ σκότος πόσον.'' None

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6.22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. ^6.23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! '' None

4. Tacitus, Annals, 15.44 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • lamp • lamps

Found in books: Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 245, 246, 249; Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 1

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15.44 Et haec quidem humanis consiliis providebantur. mox petita dis piacula aditique Sibyllae libri, ex quibus supplicatum Vulcano et Cereri Proserpinaeque ac propitiata Iuno per matronas, primum in Capitolio, deinde apud proximum mare, unde hausta aqua templum et simulacrum deae perspersum est; et sellisternia ac pervigilia celebravere feminae quibus mariti erant. sed non ope humana, non largitionibus principis aut deum placamentis decedebat infamia quin iussum incendium crederetur. ergo abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos et quaesitissimis poenis adfecit quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat. auctor nominis eius Christus Tiberio imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat; repressaque in praesens exitiabilis superstitio rursum erumpebat, non modo per Iudaeam, originem eius mali, sed per urbem etiam quo cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque. igitur primum correpti qui fatebantur, deinde indicio eorum multitudo ingens haud proinde in crimine incendii quam odio humani generis convicti sunt. et pereuntibus addita ludibria, ut ferarum tergis contecti laniatu canum interirent, aut crucibus adfixi aut flammandi, atque ubi defecisset dies in usum nocturni luminis urerentur. hortos suos ei spectaculo Nero obtulerat et circense ludicrum edebat, habitu aurigae permixtus plebi vel curriculo insistens. unde quamquam adversus sontis et novissima exempla meritos miseratio oriebatur, tamquam non utilitate publica sed in saevitiam unius absumerentur.'' None

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15.44 \xa0So far, the precautions taken were suggested by human prudence: now means were sought for appeasing deity, and application was made to the Sibylline books; at the injunction of which public prayers were offered to Vulcan, Ceres, and Proserpine, while Juno was propitiated by the matrons, first in the Capitol, then at the nearest point of the sea-shore, where water was drawn for sprinkling the temple and image of the goddess. Ritual banquets and all-night vigils were celebrated by women in the married state. But neither human help, nor imperial munificence, nor all the modes of placating Heaven, could stifle scandal or dispel the belief that the fire had taken place by order. Therefore, to scotch the rumour, Nero substituted as culprits, and punished with the utmost refinements of cruelty, a class of men, loathed for their vices, whom the crowd styled Christians. Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus, and the pernicious superstition was checked for a moment, only to break out once more, not merely in Judaea, the home of the disease, but in the capital itself, where all things horrible or shameful in the world collect and find a vogue. First, then, the confessed members of the sect were arrested; next, on their disclosures, vast numbers were convicted, not so much on the count of arson as for hatred of the human race. And derision accompanied their end: they were covered with wild beasts' skins and torn to death by dogs; or they were fastened on crosses, and, when daylight failed were burned to serve as lamps by night. Nero had offered his Gardens for the spectacle, and gave an exhibition in his Circus, mixing with the crowd in the habit of a charioteer, or mounted on his car. Hence, in spite of a guilt which had earned the most exemplary punishment, there arose a sentiment of pity, due to the impression that they were being sacrificed not for the welfare of the state but to the ferocity of a single man. <"" None

5. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Isis Pelagia, on lamps • lamp divination • magical implements, lamps

Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 136; Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 326

6. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 5.18.2 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Lampe, P., • veiling of xxxvi, lamp-beari; order of

Found in books: Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 260; Tabbernee (2007), Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, 115

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5.18.2 His actions and his teaching show who this new teacher is. This is he who taught the dissolution of marriage; who made laws for fasting; who named Pepuza and Tymion, small towns in Phrygia, Jerusalem, wishing to gather people to them from all directions; who appointed collectors of money; who contrived the receiving of gifts under the name of offerings; who provided salaries for those who preached his doctrine, that its teaching might prevail through gluttony.'' None

7. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ritual, of lamp divination • lamp divination • lychnomancy (lamp divination) • magical implements, lamps

Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 17, 118, 120, 121, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 153, 155, 165, 166, 175; Corrigan and Rasimus (2013), Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, 65; Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164

8. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • lamps • lamps, Isis boat lamps

Found in books: Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022), Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas, 121; Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 7, 78

9. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 4771
Tagged with subjects: • Cult personnel (Egyptian and Greco-Egyptian), lamp-lighter • Imhotep, use of sacred lamps • Lamps, use in Greek and Egyptian religion • Religion (Greek), use of sacred lamps • Saqqâra (general), use of sacred lamps • lamps

Found in books: Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 411; Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 78

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4771 The columns (kionia) and pediment (aitoma) and the latticed partitions (kinklides) and the (statue of) Aphrodite she dedicated to the Goddess from her own resources (5) having repaired both (the statue of) the goddess itself and the things related to it; she was her lamplighter (luchnaptria) and dream-interpreter (oneirokritis). In charge of the vestments was Aemilius (10) Attikos of Melite; the priest, bearer (iakchagogos) of the image of Iakchos, was the son of Dionysios of Marathon, temple attendant (zakoros) and bearer of the holy vessels (hagiaphoros) was Eukarpos. text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG II²
4771 - Dedication of a shrine to Aphrodite/Isis '' None

10. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • lamps • lamps, Isis boat lamps

Found in books: Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022), Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas, 121; Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 77

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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