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Byzantine Period Oil Lamp with Seven Spouts - L.0680
Origin: Gadara, Jordan
Circa: 400
AD
to 600
AD
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Byzantine
Medium: Terracotta
$6,000.00
Location: United States
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Perhaps a stylized menorah, this lamp may have
lit a Jewish home or temple during the sunset of
the Classical age. A metaphor for 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.0680)
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