2005) and Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices (University of California Press

Luisa Ciammitti is curator at the Pinacoteca Nazionale

the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy record a payment to the scribe Nicolas Spierinc for having written "some prayers for my lord

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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum pop up 2005) and Dangerous Tastes: TheJean 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