Description: Lamp is decorated with four animals whose features cannot be distinguished. The foot is a circular ridge with eight arms radiating from the center. The handle rises from the surface of the top of the lamp in a conical form. A trough surrounds the fill hole and leads to the nozzle, which is encompassed in the body of the teardrop-shaped lamp. Discoloration at the nozzle indicates use.
Date: 7th – 8th century AD
Measurements (cm): H: 9.1 W: 7.8 L: 4.3
References:
Eric Meyers et al. 1990. Excavations at the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Halav. Pp. 164-65, nos. 7, 8.
Stacy, David. 2004. Excavations at Tiberias, 1973-1974: The Early Islamic Periods. Pp. 149
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