Eric C Lapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 1704924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric C Lapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lapp |
| SIGNATURE | LAPP E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Community College of Baltimore County |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evaluating ChatGPT as a viable research tool for typological investigations of cultural heritage artefacts—Roman clay oil lamps
This study evaluates the current viability of ChatGPT as a research tool in lychnology, a discipline of archaeology focusing on the study of light use and lamps in antiquity. Prompts applicable to a common cultural heritage artifact group—the Roman clay oil lamp—were entered in ChatGPT to test its capabilities in compiling, categorizing, describing, and identifying lamp types, and to assess how accurate, detailed, and knowledgeable its responses …
Exploring Roman picture lamp breakage rituals in light of mechanical experimentation
Intentionally broken “picture” lamps, or Bildlampen , are relatively common at archaeological sites throughout the Roman world. Such lamps typically exhibit a missing central discus. The discus itself – called a lamp “medallion” – often survives, too, and represents further evidence for deliberate lamp breakage. This article explores picture lamps with missing discuses and lamp medallions as a distinct and identifiable artifact group. It also sur…
A mean weight analysis of Classic Nabatean lamp sherds from Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)
A mean weight analysis was conducted on Classic Nabatean type lamp sherds (N = 75) unearthed at the Red Sea port of Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan). The purpose of this essay is to independently test and replicate Diedre Barrett's mean weight methodology to verify its viability as a procedure to determine the estimated original complete lamp count for this group at the site. The study further suggests modifications to the analysis and proposes an equa…
A Curious Artifact
In 2006, a Roman oil lamp was scientifically excavated at Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas. This study explores why a 17th-century traveler would bring this ancient lighting vessel to the settlement and how its unusual double depositional history allows us to trace its changing meaning over time. It further demonstrates that the Jamestown lamp is the type of object that appealed to British and Europea…
Encountering Photoamulets and the Use of Apotropaic Light in Late Antiquity
In antiquity, natural and artificial light was not only manipulated to illuminate dark spaces but could also serve an amuletic function. This chapter explores several unique and in some instances forgotten archaeological small finds that hint at the use of symbolic light in tombs, sanctuaries, and building foundations. These ‘photoamulets’ were linked to symbolic and metaphoric light in word, image, and form. They were used for protection against…
Exploring 3D modeling, fingerprint extraction, and other scanning applications for ancient clay oil lamps
A Water Absorption Analysis of Nabatean, North African and Other Clay Lamp Fabrics Unearthed at the Red Sea Port of Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)
A water absorption analysis was conducted on 103 clay lamp samples to determine whether the fabrics of this pottery type are porous. If so, this would lend further support to the long‐standing assumption that lamp makers coated their lighting vessels with slip—not just for decorative purposes, but as a means of preventing oil seepage of the fuel chamber. The samples were excavated at the Red Sea port of Roman Aila (modern Aqaba, Jordan) and belon…
Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land
Lucerne fittili dagli scavi di Palaepaphos (Cipro) . Silvana Bezzola
Clay Lamps Shed New Light on Daily Life in Antiquity
Jewish Archaeological Evidence from the Roman Rhineland
Cette etude est un examen systematique des collections des musees des pays rhenans datant de la periode romaine et attestant grâce a l'archeologie la presence de juifs. Ces temoignages archeologiques sont compiles et compares avec les trouvailles precedentes dans le but de creer une source accessible a propos de cette question. La presence juive dans ces regions remonte aux IV e et V e siecles de notre ere
Exploring 3D modeling, fingerprint extraction, and other scanning applications for ancient clay oil lamps
A Water Absorption Analysis of Nabatean, North African and Other Clay Lamp Fabrics Unearthed at the Red Sea Port of Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)
A water absorption analysis was conducted on 103 clay lamp samples to determine whether the fabrics of this pottery type are porous. If so, this would lend further support to the long‐standing assumption that lamp makers coated their lighting vessels with slip—not just for decorative purposes, but as a means of preventing oil seepage of the fuel chamber. The samples were excavated at the Red Sea port of Roman Aila (modern Aqaba, Jordan) and belon…
Jewish Archaeological Evidence from the Roman Rhineland
Cette etude est un examen systematique des collections des musees des pays rhenans datant de la periode romaine et attestant grâce a l'archeologie la presence de juifs. Ces temoignages archeologiques sont compiles et compares avec les trouvailles precedentes dans le but de creer une source accessible a propos de cette question. La presence juive dans ces regions remonte aux IV e et V e siecles de notre ere
A Curious Artifact
In 2006, a Roman oil lamp was scientifically excavated at Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas. This study explores why a 17th-century traveler would bring this ancient lighting vessel to the settlement and how its unusual double depositional history allows us to trace its changing meaning over time. It further demonstrates that the Jamestown lamp is the type of object that appealed to British and Europea…
Exploring Roman picture lamp breakage rituals in light of mechanical experimentation
Intentionally broken “picture” lamps, or Bildlampen , are relatively common at archaeological sites throughout the Roman world. Such lamps typically exhibit a missing central discus. The discus itself – called a lamp “medallion” – often survives, too, and represents further evidence for deliberate lamp breakage. This article explores picture lamps with missing discuses and lamp medallions as a distinct and identifiable artifact group. It also sur…
A mean weight analysis of Classic Nabatean lamp sherds from Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)
A mean weight analysis was conducted on Classic Nabatean type lamp sherds (N = 75) unearthed at the Red Sea port of Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan). The purpose of this essay is to independently test and replicate Diedre Barrett's mean weight methodology to verify its viability as a procedure to determine the estimated original complete lamp count for this group at the site. The study further suggests modifications to the analysis and proposes an equa…
Clay Lamps Shed New Light on Daily Life in Antiquity
Jewish Archaeological Evidence from the Roman Rhineland
Cette etude est un examen systematique des collections des musees des pays rhenans datant de la periode romaine et attestant grâce a l'archeologie la presence de juifs. Ces temoignages archeologiques sont compiles et compares avec les trouvailles precedentes dans le but de creer une source accessible a propos de cette question. La presence juive dans ces regions remonte aux IV e et V e siecles de notre ere
Clay Lamps Shed New Light on Daily Life in Antiquity
Lucerne fittili dagli scavi di Palaepaphos (Cipro) . Silvana Bezzola
Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land
A Water Absorption Analysis of Nabatean, North African and Other Clay Lamp Fabrics Unearthed at the Red Sea Port of Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)
A water absorption analysis was conducted on 103 clay lamp samples to determine whether the fabrics of this pottery type are porous. If so, this would lend further support to the long‐standing assumption that lamp makers coated their lighting vessels with slip—not just for decorative purposes, but as a means of preventing oil seepage of the fuel chamber. The samples were excavated at the Red Sea port of Roman Aila (modern Aqaba, Jordan) and belon…
Exploring 3D modeling, fingerprint extraction, and other scanning applications for ancient clay oil lamps
Encountering Photoamulets and the Use of Apotropaic Light in Late Antiquity
In antiquity, natural and artificial light was not only manipulated to illuminate dark spaces but could also serve an amuletic function. This chapter explores several unique and in some instances forgotten archaeological small finds that hint at the use of symbolic light in tombs, sanctuaries, and building foundations. These ‘photoamulets’ were linked to symbolic and metaphoric light in word, image, and form. They were used for protection against…
Exploring Roman picture lamp breakage rituals in light of mechanical experimentation
Intentionally broken “picture” lamps, or Bildlampen , are relatively common at archaeological sites throughout the Roman world. Such lamps typically exhibit a missing central discus. The discus itself – called a lamp “medallion” – often survives, too, and represents further evidence for deliberate lamp breakage. This article explores picture lamps with missing discuses and lamp medallions as a distinct and identifiable artifact group. It also sur…
A mean weight analysis of Classic Nabatean lamp sherds from Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)
A mean weight analysis was conducted on Classic Nabatean type lamp sherds (N = 75) unearthed at the Red Sea port of Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan). The purpose of this essay is to independently test and replicate Diedre Barrett's mean weight methodology to verify its viability as a procedure to determine the estimated original complete lamp count for this group at the site. The study further suggests modifications to the analysis and proposes an equa…
A Curious Artifact
In 2006, a Roman oil lamp was scientifically excavated at Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas. This study explores why a 17th-century traveler would bring this ancient lighting vessel to the settlement and how its unusual double depositional history allows us to trace its changing meaning over time. It further demonstrates that the Jamestown lamp is the type of object that appealed to British and Europea…
Evaluating ChatGPT as a viable research tool for typological investigations of cultural heritage artefacts—Roman clay oil lamps
This study evaluates the current viability of ChatGPT as a research tool in lychnology, a discipline of archaeology focusing on the study of light use and lamps in antiquity. Prompts applicable to a common cultural heritage artifact group—the Roman clay oil lamp—were entered in ChatGPT to test its capabilities in compiling, categorizing, describing, and identifying lamp types, and to assess how accurate, detailed, and knowledgeable its responses …
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