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Bronze Age Oil Lamps : Middle Bronze Age I Oil Lamp
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Middle Bronze Age I Oil Lamp - L.0764
Origin: Jericho, Israel
Circa: 2100
BC
to 1900
BC
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
$900.00
Location: United States
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A lamp such as this might have lit homes in the Holy Land four millennia ago. 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.0764)
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