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Late Bronze Age Oil Lamp - L.2403
Origin: Hebron, Israel
Circa: 1500
BC
to 1250
BC
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Style: Late Bronze Age
Medium: Terracotta
Additional Information: SOLD
Location: United States
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A lamp such as this might have lit homes in the
Holy Land more than three millennia ago. A
metaphor of joy and prosperity, for hope, for life
itself, lamps have illuminated the path of
civilization for centuries. They have guided great
thoughts through the night, stood vigil with
lonely passions. In the presence of this simple
object, we are in touch directly with a vanished
world, with the people once warmed by its glow.
Today it remains as an enduring symbol of man's
desire to conquer the darkness.
- (L.2403)
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