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| Item Number: |
5ZZXO |
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| Category: |
Holyland |
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| Period: |
Iron Age |
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| Date: |
c. Iron Age, 1000-586 B.C. |
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| Material: |
Terra Cotta |
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| Length: |
1 7/8" (4.9cm) |
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| Display Stand: |
Not Applicable |
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| Price: |
$ 125 (USD) |
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| Note: |
These types of miniature lamps were used in house-shaped shrines. |
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| Status: |
Available |
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| Description: |
Wheel-made, in the form of a miniature deep bowl, black coarse buff clay, with rim pinched to form a spout, slightly raised flat rounded base.
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| Condition: |
Intact. A 19th century label on the outer bowl.
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| Keywords: |
Oil lamp: Widely used around the Mediterranean and the Near East from the Bronze Age until the Byzantine Period, a span of over a thousand years. During this millennium lamp-forms changed from open saucers to enclosed ovals with tubular spouts. Most surviving ancient examples are composed of ceramic or so-called terra cotta, but lamps were also made of bronze and occasionally of stone.
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