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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Oil Lamps| > AH21498
Ancient Israel, Pinched-Rim Saucer Oil Lamp, Middle Bronze Age II, c. 1730 - 1550 B.C.
|Oil| |Lamps|, |Ancient| |Israel,| |Pinched-Rim| |Saucer| |Oil| |Lamp,| |Middle| |Bronze| |Age| |II,| |c.| |1730| |-| |1550| |B.C.|, From the traditional time of Israel in Egypt.

The earliest Palestinian lamp was the wheel-made saucer with four pinched corners, forming a square lamp with four wick channels. Although the four wick lamp continued to be produced, this later one wick type became increasingly popular and became the prototype for almost all the lamps that followed. See our Pinched| Rim| Oil| Lamps| page in NumisWiki.
AH21498. Pinched-rim saucer oil lamp; Sussman p. 45, 5.27:1; Amiran pl. 59, 9; Adler 1.1.7; Schloessinger 315; Gerar 91r; 10.1 cm (4") long, 2.5 cm (1") high, Collectible, complete, intact except for small chips in edge (visible in photo), base marked with ink, "MB IIB 1730 - 1550 BC", pottery, coarse pinkish-buff clay, wheel made shallow bowl, pinch in the rim for wick, pinch pulled outward to protrude from the body, simple flat bottom, from Alex G. Malloy; SOLD











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