A rare ceramic oil lamp from the late Roman period that bears images of items used in the Second Temple has been discovered in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Thursday.
“After the Roman emperor Hadrian suppressed the Bar Kochba rebellion in 135 CE, Jews were expelled from the city,” IAA excavation director Michael Chernin said. “The Mount of Olives lamp is one of the few material traces of a Jewish presence around Jerusalem in the third to fifth centuries CE.”
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