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Bronze Age Oil Lamps : Late Bronze Age Oil Lamp
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Late Bronze Age Oil Lamp - L.2405
Origin: Jericho, Israel
Circa: 1500
BC
to 1250
BC
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Terracotta
Additional Information: SOLD
$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.
- (L.2405)
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