The Jeselsohn Collection of Lamps of the Holy Land and Its Neighbours. Volume 3, Levantine Lamps of the Roman Period / Renate Rosenthal Heginbottom and David Jeselsohn.
David and Jemima Jeselsohn Collection : Archaeology - Lamps ; volume 3
Summary note
Catalogue that "focuses on the lamp production in [the southern Levant] during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, with a shape-type like the round lamps with decorated discus continuing throughout the 3rd well into the 4th centuries....[Levant] is used here as a strictly geographical term for a region bordered in the north by the Orontes River, the Mediteranean Sea on the west up to the northern coast of Sinai and the Syrian and Arabian deserts on the east." -- page x
Notes
At head of title page : "The Jeselsohn Collection Archaeology - Lamps".
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-512).
Contents
Wheelmade Lamps and Stone Lamps
Multi-nozzle Lamps
Mouldmade Lamps
Judean Mouldmade Lamps
Jerash-Style Lamps
Nabatean Lamps
Phoenician Lamps
Round Lamps with Decorated Discus (Bildlampen).
Other title(s)
Levantine Lamps of the Roman Period
ISBN
9789652174581
9652174580
OCLC
1402203783
Danacode
022200070669
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