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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
Catalogue: V1
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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