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Islamic Oil Lamp - L.0689
Origin: Samaria, Israel
Circa: 700
AD
to 900
AD
Collection: Islamic Art
Style: Early Islamic
Medium: Terracotta
$360.00
Location: United States
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A lamp such as this might have lit homes during
the early flowering of Islam. A metaphor for joy
and prosperity, for hope, for life itself, lamps
have illumninated the path of civilization for
centuries. They have guided great thoughts
through the night, stood vigil with lonely
passions. In the presence of this simple object,
we are in touch directly with a vanished world,
with the people once warmed by its glow. Today
it remains as an enduring symbol of man's desire
to conquer the darkness.
- (L.0689)
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