Aweidah Gallery is pleased to offer this EXTREMELY RARE- ancient LARGE biblical black pottery oil lamp with four nozzles. A large filling-hole, whose rim is formed as a ledge with a ridge. The handle is a wide strip with two lengthwise grooves forming three raised mouldings, the nozzles are elongated with an almost straight end and finely scraped sides. Impressed circles and rows of other impressions ornament the nozzles...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000
item #1213806
From Jerusalem, a very attractive Talmudic period pottery torch, dating to the 6th Century AD
The torch is nicely and richly decorated with incised decoration of large palm branches all around and burning marks from the inside
Measurements: Height: 17.5 cm - Diameter: 15 cm - Height on stand: 23 cm
Condition: Excellent archaeological condition
Found in Jerusalem, Israel
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Holy Land - Byzantine Period; 5th Century AD
Inscribed terra-cotta oil lamp, “The light of Christ shines for all” reads the inscription on this Byzantine oil lamp found throughout Palestine, but especially in Jerusalem...