Vessel of the Day Feb 18, 2014 Tall el-Hammam

 

In 2014, a complete mould-made Byzantine (early 6th cent. AD) radiated slipper candlestick oil lamp with a cross (Maltese?) was discovered in square LR17B′, Locus 1 (object #3; -159.82 m.). The discovery was found in the Bath Complex in the Lower Roman area of Tall el-Hammam, Jordan.

     There was a rim around the wick hole with a cross on the nozzle. Radiated bands were evident around the shoulders running around the entire lamp with a ring base. Evidence of use was found around the wick hole. The lamp is 7.5 cm. long (3 in.) and 5 cm. (2 in.) wide with a height of 3 cm. (1.2 in).

In situ oil lamp 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The squares that associate with the letter are as follows:   
A= 14A1; B=14A1, 15A1; C=16B1, 15B1; D=15A1;
14A1; 14Z'; E=14Z1'; F=15A1; G=15G1; H=16B1.

 

Parallels

Dates to the late Byzantine Period. Noam Adler, Oil Lamps of the Holy Land from the Adler Collection (Jerusalem: Old City, 2005), 147. style No. 907.

Author	Year	Call	Site	Source
Fleitman, and Mazar	2015	Byzantine	Ophel, Jerusalem	P. 269, fig. 1.5.1, no. 75.[i]
Gardner	2014	Byzantine (second half of the 4th–mid-6th cent. ad)	Jerusalem	p. 288, fig. 5.[ii]
Adler	2005	Byzantine (second half of the 4th–5th cent. ad)	Jerusalem	p. 147, no. 907[iii]
Magness	1993	Byzantine	Jerusalem	pp. 250–51, form 2, no. 5.[iv]
Magness	1992	Byzantine	Jerusalem	fig. 7.7, pl. 6.[v]
Saller	1957	Byzantine	El Azariya	fig. 16.8.[vi]

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[i] Fleitman and Mazar, “The Late Roman and Byzantine Pottery from the  2012–2013 Excavation Seasons: Areas Upper A, B and C,” 269, fig. 1.5.1, no. 75.

[ii] Gregg E. Gardner, “City of Lights: The Lamps of Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem,” NEA 77, no. 4 (December 2014): 288, fig. 5. Small Byzantine Slipper Lamp with cross (second half of the fourth–mid-sixth centuries ad). Photograph see by Zev Radovan.

[iii] Adler, Oil Lamps of the Holy Land (2005), 147, no. 907.

[iv] Magness, Jerusalem Ceramic Chronology, 250–51, form 2, no. 5.

[v] Magness, “The Late Roman and Byzantine Pottery from the City of David,” fig. 7.7; pl. 6.

[vi] Saller, Excavations at Bethany (1949–53), fig. 16.8 Tomb-Chamber I.

 Other Oil Lamps

Over the ten years we identified 13 different oil lamps. 

In  (Feb 2012) we discovered a part of an oil lamp with a Greek inscription from a bit later period (end of the 5th to the 7th or 8th century AD). It reads "Jesus light shines for all."
[WCXPФENXACINФ]. LINK

All our lamps are published in the following work.

A Preliminary Report on the Tall al-Hammam Excavation Project: Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Remains: Field LR (2005–2014). Edited by Steven Collins, Gary Byers and D. Scott Stripling. 2021.
Field LR stands for the Lower Roman area and consists of ceramics and artifacts from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods. Includes square drawings, 65 ceramic plates, maps, color photographs and illustrations.

8.25 X 11 format, ca. 235 pages

Color paperback edition ISBN: 979-8748800105

Color hardcover edition ISBN:

2021

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