Code: 1598
Description: A grey-fawn Syro-Palestinian oil lamp with short thumb spur and sharply sloping shoulder decorated with a raised linear/herringbone pattern. Some minor chips to the body and overall surface wear and a darker grey, less weathered, fabric on the underside, otherwise condition good, possibly from Samaria.
Size: 105 mm/4.1 ins. in length
Culture: Byzantine
Date: c. 500–700 A.D.
Provenance: Previously in a South London private collection.