A Syro-Palestinian pottery oil lamp, c. 500–700 A.D.

A Syro-Palestinian pottery oil lamp, c. 500–700 A.D.

Code: 1922

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Description: A reddish-brown oil lamp with short thumb spur and sharply sloping shoulder decorated with a raised linear/herringbone pattern. Some patchy encrustation, minor chips and overall surface wear and soot deposits around the wick hole, possibly from Samaria.

Size: 110 mm/4.3 ins. in length

Culture: Syro-Palestinian

Date: c. 500-700 A.D.

Provenance: From the Collection of Mr M. Vaughan, London, formed in the 1970s-1980s.