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Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land - The Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority (Paperback)
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Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land - The Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority (Paperback)
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This volume illustrates lamps from the Byzantine period excavated
in the Holy Land and demonstrates the extent of their development
since the first enclosing/capturing of light (fire) within a
portable man-made vessel. Lamps, which held important material and
religious functions during daily life and the afterlife, played a
large role in conveying art and cultural and political messages
through the patterns chosen to decorate them. These cultural, or
even more their religious affinities, were chosen to be delivered
on lamps (not on other vessels) more than ever during the Byzantine
period; these small portable objects were used to 'promote' beliefs
like the 'press' of today. Each cultural group marked the artifacts
/ lamps with its symbols, proverbs from the Old and New Testaments,
and this process throws light on the deep rivalry between them in
this corner of the ancient world. The great variety of lamps dealt
with in this volume, arranged according to their various regions of
origin, emphasizes their diversity, and probably local workshop
manufacture, and stands in contrast to such a small country without
any physical geographic barriers to cross, only mental ones (and
where one basket of lamps could satisfy the full needs of the local
population). The lamps of the Byzantine period reflect the era and
the struggle in the cradle of the formation of the four leading
faiths and cultures: Judaism (the oldest), Samaritanism (derived
from the Jewish faith), newly-born Christianity - all three
successors to the existing former pagan culture - and the last,
Islam, standing on a new threshold. Unlike during the former Greek
and Roman periods of rule, the land of Israel during the Byzantine
period did not really have a central government or authority. The
variety of the oil lamps, their order and place of appearance
during the Byzantine period can be described as a 'symphony played
by a self-conducted orchestra, where new soloists rise and add a
different motet, creating stormy music that expresses the rhythm of
the era'. This volume, like the author's earlier books on this
subject, is intended to create a basis for further study and
evaluation of the endless aspects that lamps bring to light and
which are beyond the capacity of any single scholar.
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