A rare, 4th-century CE ceramic oil lamp recently discovered during Israeli Antiquities Authorities excavations near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem will be displayed to the public for the first time ...

Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lighted the ancient Roman Empire were made. Evidence of the pottery workshops emerged in Modena, in central-northern ...

Finds from L. 3049: oil lamps found underneath the upper part of a human skull (frontal and parietal bones) (photo: B. Zissu under the Te'omim Cave Archaeological Project). Credit: Harvard Theological ...

A 1,900-year-old Roman oil lamp with unusual decoration was unearthed in August from a grave at a Roman burial site in Cuijk near the German border. Archaeologist Johan van Kampen and a team opened ...

Dec. 14 (UPI) --An ancient ceramic oil-lamp workshop, one of the largest of its kind, has been unearthed in Beit Shemesh, a city located west of Jerusalem in Israel. Several Islamic-era artifacts from ...

In late 2012, Buffalo, New York residents Harvey and Deborah Breverman graciously gave to MUAM more than 120 ancient artifacts from their personal collection, including ceramic oil lamps, vessels, ...

Terracotta lamp from Anatolia with curled-up sleeping dog in high-relief (1st-4th c. CE) (all images courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and all featured in ‘Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul ...

Rome, 2nd century CE Terracotta 4 1/8" in length Gift of Harvey and Deborah Breverman, 2013.HB.62 Signed on base: "NOVIUS", Marcus Novius Justus. This lamp features an incised maker's mark on the ...

Antique oil lamp identification can be a bit tricky, considering there are many reproduction antique lamps on the market. The thing is, a genuine antique oil lamp can sometimes be quite valuable, so ...