Bassam Barakat Antiquities

Description

Biblical Terracotta Herodian Oil Lamp, “SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD; Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great”
Roman Herodian oil lamp, 50 BC – 50 AD.
Such this Lamps have lit homes during the time of Jesus, Rounded wheel made body, The nozzle was made separately and then attached to the body,
Giving it a splayed shape, With concave sides, The Join between the nozzle and the body of the lamp was then smoothed with a knife
(and therefore some call this type “knife-pared lamps”), Incised line across nozzle.
These lamps are common throughout the Holy-Land, Such as Jerusalem and Judea.