Small oil lamp wick from 1,500 years ago found in Shivta ... which flourished economically and socially during the Roman and Byzantine periods. Originally believed to be stopping points for ...

The lamps were dated to the Late Roman period (third to fourth ... At the same time, a small number of the ceramic oil lamps are decorated with distinctively Jewish symbols such as the shofar ...

During the late first century A.D., residents of Jerusalem buried a small bronze oil lamp shaped like half of a grotesque face in the foundations of a Roman building. As Yori Yalon reports for ...

Pp. 296-300. Porath Y. In preparation. Oil Lamps. In P. Gendelman. Insula W2S3: Domus of the Dioscuri, Late Roman Public Thermae, Byzantine Semi-Public Complex and the Adjoining Architecture; Small ...

A rare, 4th-century CE ceramic oil lamp recently discovered during ... Also depicted on the small lamp are an incense shovel, which Temple priests used when making offerings, and a lulav, the ...

The Whanganui Regional Museum is lucky to have a small collection of early oil lamps from the Roman Period. Two of the Roman oil lamps in the collection are good examples of mould-made lamps that ...

A research team at the University of Bar-Ilan published a paper that said these relics, dating back to the 2nd to 4th centuries of the Roman era ... more than 120 oil lamps, three human skulls ...