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| Item Number: |
0UUQI |
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| Category: |
Holyland |
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| Period: |
Late Bronze |
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| Date: |
c. Late Bronze, 1550-1200 B.C. |
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| Material: |
Terra Cotta |
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| Length: |
5 1/2" (14cm) |
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| Display Stand: |
Not Applicable |
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| Price: |
$ 275 (USD) |
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| Status: |
Available |
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| Description: |
Wheel made, reddish-orange smoothed buff clay, with rim pinched deeply to form a spout, slightly raised flat ring base, with outward flat rim and parallel elongated sides.
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| Condition: |
Minor chip on rim, otherwise intact.
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| References: |
Ancient Lamps from the Mediterranean, pp. 11-12.
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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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