Pottery lamp of red ware. Ovoid shape with small flat vertical handle. The upper body is decorated with raised dots, diagonal lines, cross-hatching, concentric circles and possible foliage designs. [MOBB [OPS move] 07/06/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery lamp of red ware. Ovoid shape with small flat vertical handle. The upper body is decorated with raised dots, diagonal lines, cross-hatching, concentric circles and possible foliage designs. [MOBB [OPS move] 07/06/2016]
Geographical reference: Palestine
Asia > Western Asia > Palestine; Ain el Sultan
Cultural groups: Arab
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source George Fabian Lawrence
Date
Date collected: By 1909
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1909
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Decorated, Process Moulded
Dimensions: Length: max 106 mm, Height: max 36 mm, Width: max 64 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1909.77.1 Other numbers: KS 79 [K S 79]
Research and responses: I have had to presume that the provenance is still in current day Syria though I am aware the borders in this area have changed much since 1909. However, I was unable to find Ain el Sultan on a map of Syria [AP 15/5/2000] The site is in the area now known as the 'West Bank' and so I have changed the country to 'Palestine' and 'Israel' rather than Syria (where it did used to belong under Ottoman rule, but the 1920 San Remo conference allocated the area to the British Mandate of Palestine). [AS 28/07/2010]