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.