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Byzantine Blessed Virgin Mother of God Oil Lamp 600 AD
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Pre AD 1000 item# 755500 (stock# n68)
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Very Rare Ancient Byzantine Oil lamp with Greek Lettering "Light of The Mother of God" This term was widely used by the Byzantines for The Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of the Lord Jesus Christ. Reference: Light and Life, Ancient Christian Oil lamps of the Holy Land, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Museum, Jerusalem 2001. These lamps where used widely in Christian homes during the period of the fifth and sixth centuries AD (Byzantine Influence). The lamp in the form of a small clay bowl in which oil was burned, was the most common form of domestic lighting from the very earliest of times. As olive oil was plentiful in Palestine, this form of fuel was normally used in these lamps. The wick was usually made of flax. Whilst the shapes of lamps vary from simple bowls to very ornate clay and bronze artworks, this lamp is a quite simple yet exquisite design. Clay lamps are amongst the most prolific pottery vessels found in the archaeological remains. This lamp with its characteristic stylised 8 branch Menora is typical of the oil lamps of the period, the rarity of this particular antiquity is related to the text embossed on the sides, in place of the common palm leaves. Size: 100mm x 67 x 33
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