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‘Atiqot 57 (2007)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Clay Oil Lamps from Khirbat el-Ni‘ana
(pp. 53–72)
Varda Sussman
Keywords: pottery, industry, menorah, ethnicity
Excavations at Khirbat el-Ni‘ana yielded some 110 mold-made clay oil lamps, most of which were discovered in or around Tomb I. These lamps, spanning the time from the Late Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods, are typologically related to products of workshops that operated in the Judean Shephelah region. The lamp assemblage includes local Khirbat el-Ni‘ana-type lamps that have heretofar not been found outside of this site.