ANCIENT BIBLICAL IRON AGE DECORATED JAR, 1000 BC

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #706807

Ancient Iron Age "Time of King David" terracotta jar with circular lines around the shoulders and neck

Dated from, 1000 BC "Time of King David"

Measurements: 14 cm - Diameter: 13 cm

Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored ... Click for details

Maccabean- Hasmonean pinched oil lamp, 100 - 200 B.C

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #702990

Rare Maccabean - Hasmonean reddish terracotta piched oil lamp, small simple bowl, folded in the middle and pinched to form two holes, one for the wick and the other for pouring in the oil. Dated from, 100 - 200 B.C

Measurements: Length: 8 cm - Width: 4.5 cm

Condition: Excellent archaeological condition ... Click for details

Maccabean- Hasmonean pinched oil lamp, 100 - 200 B.C

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #699485

Rare Maccabean - Hasmonean terracotta piched oil lamp, small simple bowl, folded in the middle and pinched to form two holes, one for the wick and the other for pouring in the oil. Dated from, 100 - 200 B.C

Measurements: Length: 7.5 cm - Width: 4 cm

Condition: Intact as shown in the scans. ... Click for details

HOLY LAND OIL LAMP - 3rd-4th CENTURY AD - FREE SHIPPING

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #696092
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A Syro-Palestinian type terracotta oil lamp discovered in the Levant and dated 3rd or 4th century AD, the Late Roman or Early Byzantine Period. The orange clay has a light encrustation and two minor chips. The lamp was mouldmade with a sharp carination and measures 9.8 cm. There is a small knob handle and shipping is free. Short lines radiate from the filler-hole above two rows of raised dots. The lamp is in excellent condition.... Click for details

SYR0-PALESTINIAN OIL LAMP - 3rd - 4th CENTURY AD

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #695366
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A very pretty Syro-Palestinian type terracotta oil lamp that was discovered in the Levant and is dated to the 3rd - 4th century AD, the Late Roman or Early Byzantine Period. The clay is gritty and a buff color with a orange slip. The lamp has a light encrustation and measures 9.36 cm. This mouldmade lamp has shoulder decorations of concentric circles and raised dots and a flat, tear-drop base. There is a small tongue handle and shipping is free. The lamp is in excellent condition.... Click for details

SYRO-PALESTINIAN EX. LEVANT OIL LAMP - FREE SHIPPING

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #693397
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A nice Syro-Palestinian type terracotta oil lamp discovered in the Levant and dated ca. 4th century AD, the Late Roman or Early Byzantine Period. The clay is a buff color and the lamp has a light encrustation. The item measures 8.34 cm and was mouldmade with a sharp carination which is split at the right rear. There is a moulding on the shoulders with radiating lines and a low ring base. The lamp has a knob handle and there seems to be a piece of parchment inside. Some carbon deposit is around t... Click for details

Bronze Age Oil Lamp

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #692112
HL41

An excellent Middle Bronze Age oil lamp from the Holy Land, c. 1730-1550 BC. This wheel made clay oil lamp with rounded base is 5-1/4” long, 5-1/4” wide and 2” high. Made from orange-buff clay, wet-smoothed, with sides pinched to form spout. Nice mineral encrustation and blackening around spout.

See Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ancient Lamps in the Schloessinger Collection, for similar example.

PEDIGREE 3000 YEAR ANCIENT ANTIQUE HOLY LAND VESSEL

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #690715
pp22

This is a Mediterranean terra cotta bowl of about 4000 BC. At that time many of the island were occupied by insular cultures. This bowl comes from Cypress where considerable pottery was produced for export. Phoenician traders carried it throughout the Mediterranean and often were shipwrecked with their cargoes. The bowl is buff terra cotta, 5 1/4” diameter with a small lip for pouring. Condition is as shown. As with much of the items which came to auction in England in the 70’s and 80’s, t... Click for details

West Asian pottery bowl

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #689467
W27

A buff pottery bowl with aesthetic and simple proportions and thinly turned sides. Syria or Palestine, Iron Age, early to mid 1st Millennium BC Intact except for a couple of small chips on the rim. Size: 11.8 x 6 cms. Ex. UK private collection. Acquired from Annie Trotter Ancient Art, London c. 1980's.

SAMARITAN TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP FROM THE HOLY LAND

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Holy Land: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #687917
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A Samaritan-type terracotta oil lamp excavated in the Holy Land and dated to the 3rd or 4th century AD, the late Roman or Early Byzantine Periods. The clay is an orange color and the lamp measures 8.9 cm. There is a slight cracking on the carination at the front and a small knob handle at the rear. There are no decorations and the filler-hole is surrounded by a low rim that extends around the wick-hole forming a shallow trench on the nozzle. A heavy earth encrustation covers the lamp and there i... Click for details