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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. See our Bi-Lanceolate| Oil| Lamps| page in NumisWiki. 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 ancient Hebrew name means hot springs of (the ancient city of) Gadara (modern Umm Qais). The Arabic name El-Hamma preserves this, and the name of the tel located near the site, Tel Bani, is a corruption of the Latin word meaning "baths." 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 the ruins of the 5th century synagogue at Hamat Gader. Click the photo to see a larger image. |  |
AL93917. Bi-lanceolate oil lamp; cf. Sussman Late 3125; Adler Collection type N2, 460; Qedem 8 450, Choice, completed and intact, light deposits, soot on nozzle; 7.4 cm (2 7/8") long, c. 270 - 500 A.D.; mold made, pink-buff clay, boat shaped body includes the entire lamp from tip of nozzle to tip of "tongue" handle, wide rim surrounding large fill hole is separated from shoulder by incised line, incised herring-bone geometric wreath pattern on narrow convex shoulders, two incised lengthwise lines on the handle; SOLD
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