![Body Sherd Composite Vessel Inscribed
Photographer:Yolovitch Yael](images/300/1480647.jpg) IAA Number: 2014-2005
![Back](images/backsearch_icon_eng.gif) | Object's Name: Body Sherd Composite Vessel, Lamp Inscribed, Hebrew Period: Byzantine Material: Pottery Site: `Utsa, H. Description: According to the excavators, the vessel was used as a hanging holder
for Sabbath lamps (Shabbath Lampstand). On the vessel an engraved
inscription in Hebrew "Shabbath". (שבת). Bibliography: Avshalom- Gorni D. 2009. The pottery from Stara 9- 6 in: Getzov N. (et al.), Horbat 'Uza- The 1991 Excavations, Volume II: The Late Periods. IAAR 42: 65- 66, Fig. 2.42: 11.
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