Islamic Oil lamp. 640 A.D. SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSS

Islamic Oil lamp. 640 A.D. SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSSSize: 10x9 cm. 4x3. 5 inch. There is a transition period from Byzantine to Islamic lamps. The decoration on lamps of this transition period changed from crosses, animals, human likenesses, birds, fish, etc., to plain linear, geometric, and raised dot patterns. The early Islamic lamps continued the traditions of Byzantine lamps. Decorations were initially a stylized form of bird, grain, tree, plant, or flower. Then they became entirely geometric or

John The Baptist with scenes of his life

Very finely done

Size: 41x21

early in the 3rd century AD

She is said to have miraculously appeared to believers many times over the centuries

as the Byzantine world fragmented

width= 7 cm

During this time

[2] The Roman military garrison of Judaea was quickly overrun by rebels and the pro-Roman king Agrippa II fled Jerusalem

derived from one of many names of God in Judaism

In the Epistle of Jude 1:9

6 length and width