Lamp

29-102-82

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 29-102-82
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area CN II, 25; class G (?)
Period Roman Period
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Description

Crudely shaped, high knob handle, wide nozzle; roughly molded decoration of an amphora on the nozzle flanked by bunches of grapes and on the sides of the lamp is a faint scrolling grape vine; brown ware; nozzle blackened by use. Card says it was found with Roman and Byzantine lamps.

Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number 1593 - Field No SF

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