Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (329)

POTTERY SAUCER OIL LAMP WITH FIVE WICK SPOUTS
Biblical, Iron Age, 1200 – 1000 BC
First temple period
“Time of King David”

RARE - A charming wheel-made pottery oil lamp, bowl with thick side, five pinches on sides. It has been suggested that five-spouted lamps were used for ritual purposes...

ALABASTER FIGURE OF A FEMALE
Roman period, 3rd Century A.D...

COPPER AXE-HEAD AND MACE HEAD
Canaanite, Late Chalcholithic - Early Bronze Age, 3500 - 2200 B.C.
Found in the Holy Land

Rare- ancient Canaanite copper Flat Axe-head and a Mace-head (Set)

Cast copper alloy flat / proto-palstave axehead from the early Bronze Age with a crescent-shaped blade. The body of the object thickens towards the middle and there are ridges along the sides, running perpendicularly to the blade...

ZOOMORPHIC DECORATED POTTERY WINE VESSEL
Byzantine Empire, 5th – 6th Century AD

A fascinating ancient Byzantine decorated pottery zoomorphic wine vessel in the form of a cockerel with a loop handle.

The liquids could be poured through the orifice in the animal's head...

POTTERY OIL LAMP WITH A CROSS-SHAPED HANDLE
Byzantine Empire, 5th – 6th Century AD

Ancient Byzantine pottery oil lamp with a looped handle in the form of a cross.

Measurements:
Length: 12.5 cm
Width: 7.5 cm

Condition: Perfect condition with beautiful natural patina

Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

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A CHARMING TERRACOTTA FEMALE BUST
Greek period, 300 - 100 BC

Measurements:
Height: 14 cm
Width: 13 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm

Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass “Lucite†display stand of high quality.

Condition: Good condition, untouched as found.

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#2746

Alabaster cosmetic ointments pot
Canaanite, Middle Bronze Age, 2nd Millennium B.C.

Measurements:
Height: 5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm
Height on stand: 6.5 cm

Condition: Minor ancient chip otherwise intact and in good condition

Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass “Lucite” display stand on high quality.

Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Israel

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# 623569

RARE – Golden-Yellowish glazed pottery wine rython flask Persia, Parthian period, 100 – 300 AD

Graceful globular body with a cylindrical- shaped neck with a rim folded outward, two handles and a roundel base...

RARE - Terra-cotta belly-shaped wine amphora
Roman, Herodian, 37 BC – 70 AD
Second temple period
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great

Extremely rare and excessively “Egg-shell” thin pottery belly-shaped wine amphora with an elegant cylindrical shaped neck and two handles...

Snake “Serpent” pottery jar
“Tell El-Yahudiyeh ware"
Holy Land, Canaanite, Middle Bronze Age
1730 - 1550 BC
Time of Abraham

The jar is outstanding in its excellent workmanship and decoration, a fine creation of the master potter in a period when pottery-making reached a peak of achievement.

The jar is well proportioned, with a flaring neck, graceful ovoid body and a pointed base...

RARE - Alabaster jar
Holy Land, Canaanite, Late Bronze Age , CYPRIOT
1550 – 1200 BC
Time of Moses

Alabaster bilbil with a shaped-neck and a flat base. Bilbils of this type are usually made of pottery and it is rare to come in stone “Alabaster”

Dimensions: 
Height: 12 cm 
Diameter: 7 cm 
Height on stand: 16 cm

Condition: Neck/Handle professionally re-attached otherwise intact...

Oil Lamp

Biblical, Holy Land
Late Bronze Age
1550 – 1200 BC
“Time of Moses”

Gracefully displayed in a beautiful wooden frame which will definitely add a unique touch and addition to any room in any house

Measurements:
Length: 14 cm -
Width: 14.5 cm

Frame dimensions:
Height: 43 cm
Width: 43 cm

Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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Decorated pottery oil lamp
Holy Land, Roman period, Darom type, 70 - 150 AD

Nicely decorated with a rosette flower design all around the filling hole

Measurments: Length: 9 cm - Width: 6.5 cm

Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored.

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

Darom oil lamps in one of the most interesting groups of lamps in the exhibit is the type called "Darom", refering to its manufacture area...

RARE- AN AMLASH TERRACOTTA HUMP-BACKED BULL RHYTON
10TH-8TH CENTURY B.C...

RARE- CLAY OIL LAMP DEPICTING A FACE
LATE ROMAN, 4TH CENTURY A.D.

Beit Natif oil lamps:

These lamps are named after the site of Beit Natif in the southern part of the Judaea, where a workshop was found during excavations of two cisterns. They were imitated throughout the province. The lamps are usually small and some have red slip. These lamps have a bow-shaped nozzle, which has a narrow ridge around its edge...

A Necklace, bracelet and earrings. The beads have been carefully restrung from ancient faience mummy multi-colored beads. Wearable and in very good condition

Egypt; Hyksos Period; 1550 BC

Dimensions:
Necklace length: 42 cm
Bracelet: 20 cm

EGYPTIAN MUMMY BEADS

Egyptian burial sites have yielded enormous quantities of beads in many varieties...

Holy Land - Byzantine Period; 5th Century AD

Inscribed terra-cotta oil lamp, “The light of Christ shines for all” reads the inscription on this Byzantine oil lamp found throughout Palestine, but especially in Jerusalem...

A LIMESTONE VEILED FEMALE BUST CARVED IN HIGH RELIEF

ROMAN - PALMYRA, CIRCA, 1ST - 2ND CENTURY A.D...