- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of red ware. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery lamp of red ware. Ovoid in shape with flat bottom, rounded sides to shoulder and convex top. The central filling hole is surrounded by a raised rim, itself and the wick nozzle outlined with a lower raised rim. The body of the lamp has a Greek inscription in relief, and the channel on the wick nozzle is decorated with a cross in relief. There is blackening around the wick hole. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Arab
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1909
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1909
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Terracotta Pottery, Process Inscribed, Process Thrown, Process Coiled, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Height: max 35 mm, Length: max 105 mm, Width: max 65 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1909.77.2 Other numbers: KS 21 [K S 21]
- 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]
1909.77.2
Pottery lamp of red ware. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]
1909.77.2
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