BIG Ancient Roman HERODIAN Biblical OIL LAMP Jerusalem

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Click picture to see actual image size. Large Herodian Pottery OIL LAMP Finest Quality Large Ancient Herodian Oil Lamp Roman~Herodian Period, ca. 50 AD Time of Christ. We are pleased to offer this beautiful Ancient buff pottery oil lamp from Jerusalem. The lamp is quite large andcharacterized by its elegant low profile with flared volute wick nozzle. A raised ray pattern radiates around the central fill hole. The lamp also features a pierced lug handle and a double ring foot. / Material: buff pottery. Condition: Intact; lovely earthen mineral patina--gorgeous piece. Yael Israel and Uri Avida in Oil-lamps from Eretz Israel. The Louis and Carmen Warschaw Collection at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1988) : The oil-lamp, the light carrier of antiquity, though small and simple in design, was an extremely practical and important object. Light has always been a symbol of the human soul, of life, and goodness, as opposed to darkness and evil. The uses of the oil-lamp were thus of double significance - secular and practical on the one hand, and mystical and ritual on the other. Lamps served man in burial and other rites: the profusion of oil-lamps which have been discovered in tombs indicates that they not only provided illumination for those digging the caves and tombs, and for the people coming to bury read more

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