371, Lot: 1275. Estimate $150. Sold for $131. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Terra cotta oil lamp. Early Samaritan, Southern Type, 3rd-5th centuries AD. Temple façade: on nozzle a conch-like covering to the Holy Ark, supported by a column at each shoulder; pyrmaid-shaped handle. Length: 8.2cm. Minor chips and cracks. Cf. N. Adler, Oil lamps of the Holy Land: The Adler Collection (2004), no. 584.

From the Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.