371, Lot: 1274. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Terra cotta oil lamp. Herodian, 1st century AD until AD 73 (end of the Jewish War). Straight sides and rim around shoulders. Two incised concentric circles below a line on nozzle, rim around shoulders, small hole under nozzle. Length: 7.9cm. Crack along rim. Cf. N. Adler, Oil lamps of the Holy Land: The Adler Collection (2004), no. 118.

From the Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.