The lamps as objects of everyday use covered the need for lighting private and public spaces. At the same time, however, as utensils that brought light and illuminated darkness, they were associated with divination and magic as well as religion and votive offerings, while many were found in graves. During the Roman period two of the most important centers of lamp production in Greece were Corinth and Athens. At the beginning, the Corinthian workshops are the most prolific with a period of pic to the 2nd c. AD. During this period, the products of the Corinthian workshops dominated the whole of Greece. Afterwards, the Athenian workshops became more important. At the first phase, Athenian workshops imitated Corinthian models, but rather quickly distinguished their production by producing lamps of high artistic and technical quality. From the middle of the 3rd c. AD until at least a century, the lamps of the Athenian craftsmen dominated the Eastern Mediterranean, while their demand in Southern Greece continued until the 5th c. AD. The surviving inscription LE marks that the lamp was produced in the workshop of Leonteas, an Attic workshop that flourished from the second half of the 3rd c. to the first quarter of the 4th c. AD. The same inscription appears on a lamp found in Philippi (Macedonia) and on lamps from Ephesus in Asia Minor.