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Luisa Ciammitti is curator at the Pinacoteca Nazionale

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She is the author of Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2024) and Building the Medieval World (Getty

Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum pop up For historic resources—whether a culturalJean Bussire and Birgitta Lindros Wohl In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have much to reveal about life, religion, pottery, and trade in the ancient Graeco Roman world. Most of the Museums lamps have never before been published, and this