Oil Lamp
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The decoration on the clay lamps, small objects designed for daily use, in the exhibition helps chart the transformation of Byzantium’s southern provinces into lands central to the Islamic world. Largely produced at the important city of Gerasa (Jerash) in Jordan, the lamps came with a variety of decorations—Christian crosses and inscriptions, Greek and Arabic inscriptions on the same lamp, and ones inscribed only in Arabic.
Artwork Details
- Title: Oil Lamp
- Date: 6th century
- Geography: Made in Jordan, Gerasa (Jerash)
- Medium: Red ware
- Dimensions: 1 7/8 x 2 3/16 x 3 3/4 in. (4.7 x 5.5 x 9.5 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, The Yale Excavations at Gerasa (1929.656)
- Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters