Diptych of the Lampadii [SEP] material used
Diptych of the Lampadii
The Diptych of the Lampadii is an ivory diptych, measuring 27x9x2 cm) dating to the beginning of the Fifth century AD. Only the left plate, which is kept in the Museo di Santa Giulia in Brescia, survives. 
It was acquired by Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini in the eighteenth century and was donated to the Museo dell'Era Cristiana in the nineteenth century.
History.
The work, datable to the beginning of the fifth century, was made to celebrate an important event in the life
of the person named in the inscription, whose only legible fragment reads ""AMPADIORVM"" - probably indicating a member of the family of the Lampadii.
In general, diptychs were commissioned to celebrate an individual's appointment to the consulship, so one possible identity of the person named by the inscription is Flavius Lampadius, who was consul in 530. However, since the diptych is dated to the beginning of the fifth century on stylistic grounds, it is possible that it was produced on the appointment of another member of