“Oil lamps with menorah decorations are exceedingly rare, and only a few similar Beit Nattif-type lamps can be found in the National Treasures archive,” he said. “The choice of symbols on ...

Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps – two bearing symbols of the menorah – and stone lamp molds for their production, were found along with terracotta figurines. Ceramic oil lamps and stone lamp ...

“The choice of symbols on the lamp is not accidental ... The menorah occasionally appears on personal objects such as oil lamps, which – being an illumination vessel, perhaps evoked ...

"The menorah, incense shovel and lulav are symbols associated with the Jewish ... Chernin added that the oil lamp was "particularly surprising" because very little is known about Jews who lived ...

Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps, two bearing symbols of the menorah, and stone lamp molds for their production were found along with terracotta figurines which were made about 1600-1700 years ago.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Students working to build the “Sanhedrin Trail” in Israel’s Galilee unearthed a 1,400-year-old oil lamp bearing the symbol of the Jerusalem Temple’s menorah ...

it’s most fundamental symbol remains: light. Today, the idea of relying on a single oil lamp to light an apartment, let alone an entire temple, seems outlandish. Western society has gotten so ...

The menorah, or hanukkiah, is a symbol of the oil lamp that Judah Macabee found in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. One candle is lit each night to mimic the oil that burned in the Holy Temple ...

He collects oil lamps, and the rich narratives of their ... they were engraved with the names of family members too, becoming tangible symbols of a specific history and heritage,” Shetty says.