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Bronze Age Oil Lamps : Late Bronze Age Oil Lamp
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Late Bronze Age Oil Lamp - L.2937
Origin: Jericho, Israel
Circa: 1500
BC
to 1250
BC
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
$400.00
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.
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