LAMPS DISCOVERED AT HISTRIA, IN THE ACROPOLA CENTRU-SUD SECTOR IN 2014 Alexandru BĂDESCU * Valentin BOTTEZ * Cuvinte cheie: Antichitatea târzie, epocă romană, Scythia, Histria, opaițe. Keywords: Late Antiquity, Roman period, Scythia, Histria, lamps. Rezumat: Chiar dacă reprezintă o categorie ceramică importantă, atât sub aspectul cantităţii materialului descoperit în timpul cercetărilor arheologice, cât şi sub cel al informaţiilor cronologice pe care le oferă, opaiţele nu au captat, încă, suficient interesul specialiştilor. Summary: Even if it repesents an important ceramic category, given the quantity of material discovered during archaeological excavations, as wel as the chronological information they offer, lamps have not drawn enough the attention of specialists. *** Research on the Acropolă Centru-Sud Sector started in 2013, through an initial four-year research project financed and coordinated by the University of Bucharest 1 . The sector covers a surface of approximately 50 × 40 m (2000m 2 ) and is located S of the centre of the acropolis of Histria (and of street c), namely in an area of great importance for the city throughout its existence (Pl. 1). N of the sector lies the Episcopal Basilica 2 ; to the E lies Sector Domus 3 , where a series of large buildings are concentrated, dated to the same period as the Episcopal Basilica; to the S the sector is delimited by the Late Roman defence wall; to the SW lies another Christian basilica (in a sector conventionally named Basilica * Alexandru BĂDESCU: Romanian National History Museum, Bucharest; e-mail: alex_bades@yahoo.com. * Valentin BOTTEZ: University of Bucharest; e-mail: valentin.bottez@istorie.unibuc.ro. 1 A preliminary report by V. Bottez, Al. Li ț u and Al. Țârlea, containing all the details, is in print in Materiale ș i Cercet ări Arheologice 2015. 2 SUCEVEANU 2007. 3 CONDURACHI et alii 1954, p. 324–349; BOUNEGRU & LUNGU 2003–2005.