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Early Islamic/Levant (Biet Natif ?)
Teardrop shape with large fill hole. Broken handle and geometric patterning.

Early Greek lamps (types 1 and 2) were open bodied "saucer" vessels with pulled-out nozzles for a wick to lay. They were unglazed and undecorated. Likely made in or near the Athenian Agora.

Type 3: Cocked Hat Lamp; Glazed and Wheelmade. Last quarter of 7th century B.C. Earliest use of the wheel and glaze in Greek lamp production. There is a flattened circular bottom from which the saucer-like flaring sides spread to form the body. The…

Roman import to Athenian Agora, 1stBC- 1st CE (Type 8) bronze imitation.

AUGUSTAN AND IMPERIAL LAMP (from Getty: Loeschcke type 3) [Hellenistic Israel]

Late Roman or Northern African ?
Red-slip lamp. Heart motif. Large fill hole.

Late Roman, early Islamic, Late Samaria.
Teardrop shaped with a large fill hole and geometric shoulder designs. Has a broken vertical handle?

Alpha Globule Attic Lamp, late 2nd Century.
Likely found near Athens. Disk framed by a ring. Sloped thick rim with globules.

Very similar in form and decoration to a Nabatean lamp found in O'Boda. International style decoration: conch, Egyptian (?) sun rays, Phoenician flowers, and Hellenistic Ionic volutes.

Greek Lamp, early Roman (?)

Type 21, Late 1st century B.C., Roman Period Small lamp with a possible handle attachment that may have been broken. Narrow rim with rings, rosette in the center. Volutes on the neck and raised base ring on the bottom. Similar to lamp 1128 found in…