1909.77.9

Collection type

Object

Description

Pottery lamp of brown ware. [MOBB [OPS move] 8/11/2016]

Long description

Pottery lamp of brown ware. Oval shaped with slightly curved projecting lug at the back for a handle. Roughly flat bottom with expanding sides and convex top. The central filling hole is mostly surrounded by a band of raised dots which extends either side of the wick nozzle. The body is decorated with vertical ridges. The wick nozzle, between the bands of raised dots, is unadorned. [MOBB [OPS move] 8/11/2016]

Geographical reference

Palestine

Asia > Western Asia > Palestine

West Bank 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 87 mm, Width: max 56 mm, Height: max 32 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1909.77.9 Other numbers: KS 80 [K S 80]

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]

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