Holy Land Lamp with Circumvent Decoration

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Price £75 (GBP)

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  • Size

    5.5cm(D) x 11cm(L) / 2"(D) x 4"(L)

  • Condition

    Excellent

    Hairline crack around point of join between the two halves.

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    Holy Land Lamp with Circumvent Decoration

    6th-7th Century AD

    Light orange clay with patches of orange-red slip; Elongated lamp with large central filling hole with border of tongues arranged in radial fashion; Peripheral carination extending around channel and nozzle; Rectangular handle with two circumvents in raised relief with granules in the field, border of tongues. Traces of decoration remaining to shoulder and channel. Twin carination's on reverse of handle; Large base-ring with border of tongues.

    For similar cf. Bailey, BMC, Q.2344.