Evansville Museum of Arts, Science, & History (1961.085.0004)
Complete mold-made oil lamp with an ovoid body, a wide, concave nozzle without channel, large circular fill hole and small circular wick hole, and a broad, flat handle. It was probably made in two molds, or a two-part mold, and the two halves were joined. The top of the oil lamp is completely occupied by a decoration consisting of a linear, herringbone design radiating around the fill hole. The channel area is decorated with vertical line, crossed by two diagonal lines surrounded by irregularly placed dots; the decoration is bracketed by two ladder designs on either side of the nozzle. The decoration and shape are similar to oil lamps produced in Samaria during the Byzantine and Umayyad period and probably dates more specifically to the 5th c. C.E.
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