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Late Roman - Byzantine, Holyland (Syria Palaestina), Bi-Lanceolate Pottery Oil Lamp, c. 270 - 500 A.D.
| Adler notes these lamps are found throughout the northern part of Israel, especially in Beit Shean and Hamat Gader, and date to the fourth and fifth centuries. Sussman lists more than a dozen very similar lamps, most found at Beit Shean, and she dates them to the late third and fourth centuries. Hamat Gader was already a well known health and recreation site in Roman times, mentioned in Strabo, Origen and Eunapius, as well as the Rabbinic literature. Construction of the bath complex began in the 2nd century by the 10th Roman Legion, which was garrisoned in nearby Gadara. The site includes a Roman theater, which was built in the 3rd century with 2,000 seats. The empress Aelia Eudocia composed a poem praising the qualities of the multiple springs which was inscribed so that visitors could see it as they went into the pool. The photo to the right is section of the mosaic pavement recovered from the 5th century Hamat Gader synagogue, now installed in the entrance hall of the Supreme Court of Israel. Click the photo to see a larger image. |  |
AL93887. Bi-lanceolate pottery oil lamp; Adler Collection (website) type N2; cf. Schloessinger 450; Bailey BMC -; 8.3 cm (3 1/4") long, near Choice, complete and intact, some wear, c. 270 - 500 A.D.; pink clay, cream-buff slip, mold made with incised decoration, the body includes the entire lamp from tip of nozzle to tip of handle, wide rim surrounds a large fill hole, patterned band surrounding rim, row of pellets in annulets around shoulders, incised lines lengthwise on the nozzle and handle, ring base with two concentric circles within; SOLD
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