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Hello to all,
what kind used Roman sources of light at roman period and
during fight when roman army in field ?
with best regards-sajid
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Basically, either oil lamps or tallow (animal fat) candles. We tried this in our museum a few years back. The tallow candles gave a very basic level of illumination, not much more than about one foot all around the person. You could just about see enough to be able to write something on a wax tablet but the corners of the room were in darkness. The oil lamp (using olive oil) was a bit better, but not much.
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Oil Lamps with one to perhaps a dozen wicks and wax/tallow candles, a round glass globe or bottle/urn in front of the lamp amplifies the light... a shoe makers trick..... a single wick is not much use other then to find your way to bed by, but 10+ will give you more then enough light to work by
Lamps can be ceramic or metal and in a variety of designs, I favour shoe lamps....
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lamps also exist with a frame holding clear panels probably made from horn or parchment...
https://www.ecosia.org/search/images/q/R...+lamp+shoe
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"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867