Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land : The Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sussman, Varda.

Contributor:

Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel--Antiquities.

Palestine--Antiquities.

Lamps, Classical--Israel.

Lamps, Classical--Palestine.

Jewish lamps--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (643 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2017.

Summary:

This volume illustrates lamps from the Byzantine period excavated in the Holy Land and demonstrates the extent of their development since the first enclosing/capturing of light (fire) within a portable man-made vessel.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

The Catalogue

Acknowledgments

I. The Southern region: Judean Shephelah

I. LR1-5 the Beit Nattif workshop and lamps made after their fashion (I.I.LR1-I.IA.LR13) (Map 1)

II (I).LR2a: 3rd-4th century CE pear-shaped lamps made in the Yavne (Yibneh) region (#1215-#1244)

(VII) I LR5c

Lamps found at Bet She'an made after Beit Nattif

(II). ILR5a lamps made after type I. LR5 (from Yavne) (#1366-#1368)

I. LR6a-c: Lamps of types I. LR4 and I. LR5 with different types of handles, late third and fifth centuries CE) (#1388- #1391)

I. LR6a. Loop handles added to lamps of Type I. LR 4 and I. LR5 (Figure 30)

I. LR6b: Single nozzle lamps with loop handle supporting a pipe, #1390 the Sabbath lamp. (Figure 31a and b)

I. LR6.1 and I. LR6.2: Lamps of Beit Nattif type I. LR4 and I. LR5, with wing-shaped handles, third and fourth centuries CE

I. LR6.1. A combined pyramid- and wing-shaped handle. Lamps of I. LR5 type (Figure 33)

I. LR6c: Lamp type I. LR5 (Figure 32) with a loop handle supporting a plaque (unknown provenance)

I. LR7.1 Lamps with a pair of wick-holes and a pair of nozzles

third-fifth centuries CE (Figure 35)

I. LR7.2 Lamps with a triple projecting nozzles

third-fourth century CE (Figure 36)

I. LR7.3 Lamps with multiple wick-holes pierced in a straight line

4th and 5th centuries CE

I. LR7: Lamps with more than a single wick-hole, suggested date: end of the third to the sixth centuries CE (#1392- #1407) (Figures 37-43)

L LR6.2: Lamps of type I. LR5 with different wing-shaped handles probably of the fifth-sixth century CE (Figure 34)

I. LR8: Various lamps related to the Beit Nattif workshop, late third-fifth centuries CE (#1408- #1411).

I. LR8a: Lamps with flat shoulders decorated with narrow bands (Figure 46, #1408-#1411)

I. LR8b: With flat surface (shoulders) the width of the lamp (Sussman 1986-7 Type 1A) (Figure 47)

I. LR9: Pear-shaped lamps from the Bet Govrin district, the Judean region, without reference to Beit Nattif style (late third and fourth centuries CE) (#1412-#1415)

I. B10: 'Gezer' lamps (Figures 48-50) (#1416-#1422), fifth-sixth centuries CE, Map 3

II: The Yavne region: (I. LR2a, LR5a included above) and II. LR 11, II. LR11a

II. LR11a. A variant from Khirbet el Ni'ana (Figure 54)

II. LR11.1: Lamp with rounded - box shaped body and short wide arched nozzles, the coastal region (Figure 55) #1429- #1439

II. LR11b: Multiple wick-holes

II. LR11.2

Lamps with narrow nozzles (Figure 56) (#1440- #1455)

III. Jerusalem workshops, types III. LR12-III.B15 (Map 4)

III. LR12: 'Judean' Pear-Shaped Oil Lamps, third-fourth centuries CE (Figures 59-61) (#1456- #1514)

III. B13 and III. B14: 'Candlestick' lamps from after the second half of the fourth (?) to the seventh centuries CE (#1515

#1953)

III. B13: Small lamps (up to 8.0 cm Long) fourth- fifth (?) centuries CE (Figures 65-70)

(#1515-#1648)

Map 4

III. B13.3.1: Lamps with a cross on the nozzle and loop handle, exceeding 8.0 cm, with single nozzles (#1919-#1920, Figure 68.1).

III. B13.3: Lamps with nozzles bearing crosses (Figure 67)

III. B13.4: Other patterns (Figure 69) (#1601-#1606)

III. B13.5 Lamps with loop handles and a multiple wick-hole lamp, #1621 and Figure 68.2 and 3

III. B14: the large lamps (over 8.9cm), after mid-fourth to seventh centuries CE (#1622-#1963)

III. B14.1: Large lamps decorated with a 'candlestick' on the nozzle, radial strokes on shoulders (Figures 74 and 75) (#1622- #1665).

III. B14.2: Lamps with oblique strokes forming a short wide palm branch on the nozzle (Figures 76-86) (#1666- #1838)

III. B14.2.1-4.: Lamps with a wide 'branch' on nozzle and various patterns decorating the shoulders (Figure 78) (#1812-#1831)

III. B14.2:1-4: Lamps with different decorations along the shoulders

III. B14.2.2: Lamps with globules flanking the wide and short 'branch' (Figure 79)

III. B14.2.3: lamps with a channel along the nozzle separating the branch into two

probably Late Byzantine

sixth and particularly seventh centuries CE

Figures 80 and 92 (#1836-#1838)

III. B14.2.4 Lamps with a wide palm on nozzle bearing inscriptions in Greek script along the shoulders (list of inscription (Figures 81-85a-c) (#1839-1896)

III. B14.2.4a: Lamps decorated with a wide 'branch' along the nozzle

inscribed with 'The light of the Christ shines for all fine' (Figures 82 and 85)

III. B14.2.4b: Short inscriptions 'Beautiful (good) lamp' (Figure 84:1)

III. B14.2, 4e: Inscription in Syrian script (Figure 86:1, #1896)

III. B14.2.4c: Theotokos

'Mother of God' ­- lamps #1885 Jerusalem, American school, #1912 Ramat Rahel (Type II. B16.3) resembling an inscription written on a circular lamp (Figure 85) from Syria.

III. B14.2.4d: Other inscriptions, abecedary (Figure 86)

III.14.3: Cross on nozzle and radial strokes on shoulders (#1908

#1940)

III. B14.3.1: Crosses on the nozzle, inscriptions on the shoulders (Late Byzantine-Early Arab periods) (Figures 82 and 83 last lamps) #1908-#1915

III. B14.4. Large lamps with loop handle supporting different projections at the rear (Figures 89, 90 and 92). (#1922-#1940)

III. B14.5a: A face-like pattern (#1941-#1946) (Figure 94)

III. B14.5b: a circle at the top of the axis (Figure 95).

III. B15: Broad oil lamps covered with strokes, fifth-sixth centuries CE (#1948- #1953)

III. B15.1: Broad nozzle cut across the width at a distance from the wick-hole - 'Ein Yabrud' type (Figure 96 and 97)

#1954-#1962

IV. Negev, Southern region, wheel-made oil lamps

IV. BW16: Tire-shaped, low, boot or shoe-shaped lamp, sixth-seventh centuries CE (Figure 98) (#1964- #2001)

IV. BW17: Tall, boot-shaped lamp, (beehive), sixth-seventh centuries CE (Figure 99) (#2002-#2088)

V. The Samaria Region (V. LR 18 - V. B27) Map 6

V. LR18: Former 'Yavne North' lamps of the Samaria region, (late) third and fourth centuries CE (transition to V. LR20) (Map 6) (#2090-#2102)

V. LR19. Pear-shaped lamps (late third-fourth centuries CE)

(Figure 106)

(#2103-#2109)

V. LR19a Pear-shaped lamps with a handle (#2105 and #2106)

V. LR19b: Pear-shaped lamps with incised/stamped decorations, fourth century CE (#2107- #2109)

V. LR19c. Polycandelum with incised decoration (Figure 107)

V. LR20-V. LR21: Samaritan lamps, end of the third/fourth-sixth centuries CE (#2110-#2211)

V. LR20: Rounded receptacle and arched nozzle and star-shaped (four arms) handle (Late third/fourth-sixth centuries CE)

Figures 108-136)

(#2110- #2180)

V. LR20A, V. LR20B and V. LR 20C: lamps with differently shaped handles and lamps with multiple wick-hole (Figures.133, 134)

(#2169-#2184)

V. LR20A. Lamps with a star mounted on a wing shaped handle (#2169-#2184)

V. LR20B with other types of handles

V. LR20C. Multiple wick-holes #2170

V. LR21 lamps with a channel and star-shaped handle like V. LR20 (Figure 138) (#2181- #2187)

V. LR21- V. LR24 lamps with a channel end of the third/fourth and fifth centuries CE

V. LR21A. Lamps with a channel and wing-shaped handles (Figures 139-147)

(#2188-#2211).

V. B22 and V. B22A: Samaria-region lamps with channel along the nozzle, from western Samaria, trapezoidal cross-section

fifth-sixth centuries CE (#2212- #2262)

V. B22 decorated with course patterns

V. B22A, heel (horseshoe shaped) shaped base

V. B23: Lamps with channel, lentoid in cross-section (convex tops), sixth century CE (Figure 144)

(#2262- #2281)

map 6:2)

V.B24 and V.B24a: Wide, oval/egg-shaped oil lamps from Samaria (Shomron) and environs, last part of the Byzantine period (#2279- #3381)

V. B25 and 26: Almond-shaped lamps with trapezoid section, and covered by linear pattern, sixth-seventh centuries CE (#2289- #2295)

Map 6.2

V. B26: Lamps without the division into front and back of the shoulders (#2293-#2298)

V. B27: Trapezoidal lamps, with a channel and a bar above the filling-hole (sixth-eighth centuries CE)

(#2297- #2306)

V. B28: Lamps with heel/high vault

hoof-shaped (horseshoe-shaped) filling-hole, seventh-eighth centuries CE

V 29

almond-shaped oil lamps in the Byzantine tradition, Early Islamic period (#2307-#2320)

V. 29. Almond-shaped oil lamps in the Byzantine tradition, Early Islamic period (#2321-#2326)

V. B30 Multiple wick-holes (#2327)

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VI. The Phoenician coast including the Northern part of the country (VI. I B31- VI.III B 45) (#2328- #3051), Maps 7 and 8

VI.I. B31 and VI.I 31.1: local 'Caesarea' oil lamps

VI. I B31 (#2328-#2337) with a plain nozzle and VI. IB31.1 (2338-#2347) with a channel along the nozzle. Fourth-fifth (sixth?) centuries CE (Map 7)

VI. I. B32: Phoenician 'Caesarea' disc lamps (including moulds), second half of the fourth-fifth centuries CE (Figures 150-162) (#2348-#2398)

VI I B32b: lamp with other shapes - square, trapezoid (kite-shaped) and pear-shaped (Figure 153).

VI. I B32a: Moulds for a chandelier-multiple wick-holes in a circle (#2362 and #2363).

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781784915711

1784915718

OCLC:

1012779358