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1,700-year-old oil lamp found in Jerusalem shows a rare Jewish menorah, even though the Romans tried to suppress the religion
The menorah has seven branches, symbolizing those used only in the Second Temple, a holy place for Jews in Jerusalem that the Romans had destroyed in A.D. 70. By the time this oil lamp was crafted ...
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'Extremely rare' ancient oil lamp with 1,700-year-old soot marks discovered buried in Jerusalem
Israeli officials recently announced the discovery of an unusual oil lamp dating ... to the Temple." The lamp also contains soot marks from the last time it was used, nearly two millennia ago.
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'Exquisite' 1,700-year-old lamp bearing Temple symbols discovered in Jerusalem
A rare ceramic oil lamp from the ... Temple’s memory.” The lamp would be revealed to the public for the first time during Hanukkah “alongside stone molds used to make ceramic lamps ...