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Islamic purple glass lamp jar

Jars and Vases

Islamic purple glass lamp jar

Islamic Fatimid shiny bright purple glass jar, probably from an ornate hanging mosque oil lamp. Size : 7.5 cm Syrian type, Al-Quds, Jerusalem. ca. 800 CE.

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Islamic Bronze Coin with 5-branched Menorah

Coins

Islamic Bronze Coin with 5-branched Menorah

Early Islamic (Umayyad) bronze coin minted in Jerusalem, ca. 696 ce, with 5-branched menorah and Arabic inscription : "Aliya, Madinet Bayit al-Maqdis" = "Aliya" is from Aelia Capitolina (the Roman emperor Hadrian's new name for Jerusalem, ca 135 ce; post BarKokhva), plus 'city of the Temple'. Although there had not been a Jewish Temple on ...

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