Oil lamp

Oil lamp University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library -- Special Collections Dept. manuscripttext eng Lamp is decorated with raised tracings of leaves, grapes, flowers and birds. Base is a ridge in a teardrop shape, which replicates the shape of the perimeter of the lamp itself. Handle rises from the back of the lamp in a C-shape, curving toward the fill hole. A trough defined by the rim of the fill hole and a ridge drains to the nozzle. Yizhar Hirschfeld, The Roman Baths at Hammat Gader, 1997, p. 326-328, fig. 14. Colt Archaeological Institute, Excavations at Nessana, p. 62-64, pl. XXVIII, no. 16, 17. David Stacy, Excavations at Tiberias, 1973-1974, 2004, p. 155-156, fig. 6.9. Form 2A. Lamp is decorated with raised tracings of leaves, grapes, flowers and birds. Base is a ridge in a teardrop shape, which replicates the shape of the perimeter of the lamp itself. Handle rises from the back of the lamp in a C-shape, curving toward the fill hole. A trough defined by the rim of the fill hole and a ridge drains to the nozzle. Condition: Fair. Lamp is cracked. Chips missing from nozzle, handle and one side at the perimeter oil lamps Lamps, Ancient Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Oil lamp

University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library -- Special Collections Dept.

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Lamp is decorated with raised tracings of leaves, grapes, flowers and birds. Base is a ridge in a teardrop shape, which replicates the shape of the perimeter of the lamp itself. Handle rises from the back of the lamp in a C-shape, curving toward the fill hole. A trough defined by the rim of the fill hole and a ridge drains to the nozzle.

Yizhar Hirschfeld, The Roman Baths at Hammat Gader, 1997, p. 326-328, fig. 14. Colt Archaeological Institute, Excavations at Nessana, p. 62-64, pl. XXVIII, no. 16, 17. David Stacy, Excavations at Tiberias, 1973-1974, 2004, p. 155-156, fig. 6.9. Form 2A.

Lamp is decorated with raised tracings of leaves, grapes, flowers and birds. Base is a ridge in a teardrop shape, which replicates the shape of the perimeter of the lamp itself. Handle rises from the back of the lamp in a C-shape, curving toward the fill hole. A trough defined by the rim of the fill hole and a ridge drains to the nozzle.

Condition: Fair. Lamp is cracked. Chips missing from nozzle, handle and one side at the perimeter

oil lamps

Lamps, Ancient

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection