https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/haaimagehosting/original/d779b432205ef4fb975ba52b5336060a.jpg 67a2c4996b12538fbf0ad81efa215c9e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Late Antiquity Mirador IIIF Collection Metadata UUID c6cea811-7e75-4e59-9625-790acc1758b2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lamp Handle with Dolphins Subject The topic of the resource a. Early Byzantine c. 4th-5th century b. 21.9 x 10.7 x 2.9 cm, copper alloy c. Metropolitan Museum of Art 63.185.1 Description An account of the resource A pair of dolphins use their tails to support the handle’s rectangular plaque. Their heads would have been attached to a now-lost base. Round flat hanging lamps, or polycandela, were lit by oil-filled glass vessels hung from the round holes in their designs. Paul the Silentiary in 563 described the effect of huge hanging lamps that lit the great church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople: “Thus is everything clothed in beauty…no words are sufficient to describe the illumination in the evening: you might say that some nocturnal sun filled the majestic church with light.” IIIF Item Metadata UUID 4b33882d-563a-4811-977e-33108012d04b