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Bronze Age Oil Lamps : Late Bronze Age Oil Lamp
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Late Bronze Age Oil Lamp - L.0307
Origin: Kfar Malek, Israel
Circa: 1500
BC
to 1250
BC
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
$360.00
Location: United States
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A lamp such as this might have lit homes
in the
Holy Land more than three millennia ago.
A
metaphor of joy and prosperity, for
hope, for life
itself, lamps have illuminated 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.0307)
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