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#11157 Christian
Pilgrim's Token of the True Cross
Socrates Scholasticus (born c.
380 A.D.), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full
description of the discovery of the True Cross of Christ.
In it, he describes how Empress Helena
(later Saint Helena), mother of Constantine the Great, the
first Christian Emperor of Rome, travelled to the Holy Land, dated by
modern historians in 326-28, on a quest to find the True Cross of
Christ. It is reported
that she discovered the hiding place of three crosses, believed to be
used at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the two thieves.
In Socrates's version of the story,
the Romans had the three crosses placed in turn on a deathly ill
woman. This woman recovered at the touch of the third cross, which was
taken as a sign that this was the True Cross of Christ.
Saint Helena brought the cross to Jerusalem, where it stayed for three
centuries. However,
during the war between the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires in the 7th
century A.D., The Sassanian king, Khsru II, sacked Jerusalem and
carried off the True Cross as spoils of war.
The Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610 - 641 A.D.) dedicated his
life to the recovery of the cross. He amassed a large, powerful army
with the primary goals of liberating Jerusalem and recovering the True
Cross of Christ.
Heraclius succeeded and the cross was recovered and taken to
Constantinople and then across Asia Minor, back to its final resting
place at Jerusalem. As the cross was being taken back to Jerusalem,
entire villages of people would line the streets as the cross
continued it's journey back to Jerusalem. A piece of the cross, which
had broken off during the journey, was burned to fine ash and mixed
with clay and impressed into molds to create special sacred clay
medallions for pilgrims commemorating the return of the True Cross to
Jerusalem. The small, unfired, terracotta medallion here is one of the
very tokens that legend states that contain a small portion of the
True Cross of Christ.
Size: 19 mm diameter (about diameter of a US
Penny) SOLD $699 plus shipping (add $80 for framing)
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Most lamps on this page were recently acquired Holyland oil lamps. These lamps were recently excavated in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. These were legally acquired and exported from our resource in Israel. The photo below is of the "Customs" bag these lamps came in . about Oil Lamps A Certificate of Authenticity will be provided for all antiquities, including a statement of providence noting the excavation areas.
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#6807: Holyland Oil Lamp - 100 BC to 50 AD, Herodic Period, Excellent Styling and Color !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Herodian period-style
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$149 plus shipping
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#10226: Holyland Oil Lamp - 100 BC to 50 AD, Herodic Period, Unusual Styling and Great Contrasting Colors !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Herodian period-style SOLD $219 plus shipping
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#10200: Holyland Oil Lamp - 100 BC to 50 AD, Herodic Period, Excellent Styling and Color !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Herodian period-style SOLD $179 plus shipping
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#6260: Holyland Oil Lamp -
200 BC to 200 AD, Lovely Color and Great Surfaces !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Roman-style SOLD $129 plus shipping
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#9546: Early BRONZE AGE Holyland Oil Lamp 1,500 to 1,000 BC, Excellent Piece !! LARGE for this type !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Open Cup style, Dark soiled
coloring, Soot on tip SOLD $169 plus shipping
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#9547: Early BRONZE AGE Holyland Oil Lamp 1,500 to 1,000 BC, Excellent Piece !! LARGE for this type !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Open Cup style, Brown glazed
Bottom, Soot on tip SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#9548: Early BRONZE AGE Holyland Oil Lamp 1,500 to 1,000 BC, Excellent Piece !! LARGE for this type !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Open Cup style, Soot on tip SOLD $139 plus shipping
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#9549: Early BRONZE AGE Holyland Oil Lamp 1,500 to 1,000 BC, Excellent Piece !! LARGE for this type !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Open Cup style, Darker soiled
coloring, Soot on tip, Brown glaze on top and bottom, Rolled
rim SOLD $199 plus shipping
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#9297: Early BRONZE AGE Holyland Oil Lamp 1,500 to 1,000 BC, Excellent Piece !! LARGE and DEEP for this type !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Open Cup style, Dark soiled
coloring SOLD $169 plus shipping
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#9826: Middle BRONZE AGE Cup 2,200 to 1,500 BC (Before Time of Moses), Simple Design with Usual Geometric Design INTACT !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Middle Bronze Clay Cup SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#9827: Middle BRONZE AGE Cup 2,200 to 1,500 BC (Before Time of Moses), Simple Design with Usual Geometric Design INTACT !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Middle Bronze Clay Cup SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#9828: Middle BRONZE AGE Cup 2,200 to 1,500 BC (Before Time of Moses), Simple Design with Usual Geometric Design INTACT !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Middle Bronze Clay Cup SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#9829: Middle BRONZE AGE Cup 2,200 to 1,500 BC (Before Time of Moses), Simple Design with Usual Geometric Design INTACT !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Middle Bronze Clay Cup SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#9830: Middle BRONZE AGE Cup 2,200 to 1,500 BC (Before Time of Moses), Simple Design with Usual Geometric Design INTACT !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Middle Bronze Clay Cup SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#6771: Early BRONZE AGE Cup 2900 to 2650 BC Usual Simple Design INTACT !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Early Bronze Clay Cup SOLD $119 plus shipping
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#8817: Ancient Judaea Juglet, From Time of Idol Worship Early Bronze Age 2900 to 2650 BC Size: 3 3/4 inch tall, 2 3/4 diameter
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$199 plus shipping
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#9650: Holyland Oil Lamp - 100 BC to 50 AD, Herodic Period, Excellent Styling and Color !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Herodian period-style SOLD
$179 plus shipping
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#9652: Holyland Oil Lamp - 100 BC to 50 AD, Herodic Period, Excellent Styling and Color !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Herodian period-style
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$179 plus shipping
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#9685: Holyland Oil Lamp - 50 to 100 AD, Post-Herodic Period, Daroma mold-made lamp Triangle and Lines decoration Historical Context: Daroma lamps were manufactured in Judaea after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, when the urban population, including artists and craftsmen, fled Jerusalem. These are the first decorated lamps made by Jews and intended for Jewish use. (Ref: Ken Baumheckel, 2006) Description: Herodian period-style SOLD $139 plus shipping
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#9356: Early Christian Roman Judaea Oil Lamp 4th Century AD, Bold Christian Cross !! Historical Context:
See above Historical Context SOLD $129 plus shipping
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#9154: Roman Judaea Oil Lamp 2nd to 4th Century AD, Nice Surfaces !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context (Ref Malloy Sale "L", Item 1503) Description: Mold made, Orange slip over
terracotta SOLD
$79.95 plus shipping
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#9153: Roman Judaea Oil Lamp 2nd to 4th Century AD, Nice Surfaces !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context (Ref Malloy Sale "L", Item 1503) Description: Mold made, Orange slip over
terracotta SOLD $69.95 plus shipping
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#8742: Roman Judaea Oil Lamp 4th Century AD, Nice Surfaces !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context (Ref Malloy Sale "L", Item 1503) Description: Mold made, Orange slip over
terracotta SOLD $59.95 plus shipping
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#8036: Early IRON AGE Juglet 9th to 6th Centuries BC, Usual Simple Design INTACT !! Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Early Iron Clay Juglet SOLD $119 plus shipping
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#8608: Spear Point, Mesopotamia / Luristan Circa 1,500 to 1,000 BC (Hittite Period) VERY LARGE Historical Context: Cultures of Mesopotamia were diverse and variegated. Even in the period of great empires, beginning with the Akkadians, Mesopotamia consisted of largely independent city-states with their own cults (often completely different religions), languages, kings, and administrations. The earliest culture is the Sumerians (circa 3000 to 1800 BC), but other cultures developed, including the Akkadians (2450 to 1800 BC), the Amorites (1800 to 1530 BC), the Hittites (1600 to 717 BC), and the Assyrians (1170 to 612 BC). Description: Bronze Spear Point, Socket Base SOLD $449 plus shipping See additional photo below to better understand the size of this spear tip. |
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#10796: Ancient Luristan (Eastern
Mesopotamia) Duck-eyed on curves of hilt at attachment to blade (See close-up picture) Molded grip with Four Men Arm-to-Arm (See close-up picture)
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#10018: Ancient Luristan (Eastern
Mesopotamia)
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#9218: Spear Point, Kassite, 1,600 to 1,150 BC Historical Context: The Kassites conquered Elam and Babylonia with this type of weapon and is considered one of the more attractive spear tips made in antiquitiy. The Kassites were a Near-Eastern mountain tribe which migrated to the Zagros Mountains and Mesopotamia (present Doroud) in 3000 and 4000 BC. They spoke a non-Indo-European, non-Semitic language. They conquered Mesopotamia, bringing the Old Babylonian era to an end and for the first time welding together the network of independent, feuding city-states into a territory that can be called "Babylonia." According to the conventionally used Middle Chronology, Kassite hegemony in Babylon, Nippur and other centers lasted from about 1595 to 1155 BC. Description: Bronze Spear Point, Kassite
region SOLD $109 plus shipping
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#8614: Spear Point, Time of Abraham, 2,100 to 1,900 BC Historical Context: See above Historical Context Description: Bronze Spear Point, Syria -
Israel region SOLD $109 plus shipping
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#9573: Spear Point, Ur III, 2,150 to 1900 BC Historical Context: Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), located near the mouth (at the time) of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. It is considered to be one of the earliest known civilizations in world history. The third dynasty was established when the king Ur-Nammu (or Urnammu) came to power, ruling between ca. 2112 BC and 2094 BC. During his rule, temples, including the ziggurat, were built, and agriculture was improved through irrigation. His code of laws, the Code of Ur-Nammu (a fragment was identified in Istanbul in 1952) is one of the oldest such documents known, preceding the code of Hammurabi by 300 years. Description: Bronze Spear Point, Mesopotamia SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#9571: Spear Point, Ur III, 2,150 to 1900 BC Historical Context: Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), located near the mouth (at the time) of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. It is considered to be one of the earliest known civilizations in world history. The third dynasty was established when the king Ur-Nammu (or Urnammu) came to power, ruling between ca. 2112 BC and 2094 BC. During his rule, temples, including the ziggurat, were built, and agriculture was improved through irrigation. His code of laws, the Code of Ur-Nammu (a fragment was identified in Istanbul in 1952) is one of the oldest such documents known, preceding the code of Hammurabi by 300 years. Description: Bronze Spear Point, Mesopotamia SOLD $159 plus shipping
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#9778: Spear Point, Middle Elamite period, 1,200 to 800 BC Historical Context: The Elamite Civilization started in the lowland Khuzestan about the late 4th and early 3rd millennia. Known as Elam, geographically, Elam included more than Khuzestan; it was a combination of the lowlands and the immediate highland areas to the north and east. Traditionally it was a federated governmental structure based an overlord ruling over vassal princes. In earliest times the overlord lived in Susa, which functioned as a federal capital. Elam appears in the Old Testament Table of Nations (Gen. 10.22), and an Elamite king whose name has comedown to us as Kedor-Laomer is mentioned in a later chapter of Genesis (14.1), as well. Description: Bronze Spear Point, Amlash, Iran
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#10227: Spear Point, Middle Elamite period, 1,200 to 800 BC Historical Context: The Elamite Civilization started in the lowland Khuzestan about the late 4th and early 3rd millennia. Known as Elam, geographically, Elam included more than Khuzestan; it was a combination of the lowlands and the immediate highland areas to the north and east. Traditionally it was a federated governmental structure based an overlord ruling over vassal princes. In earliest times the overlord lived in Susa, which functioned as a federal capital. Elam appears in the Old Testament Table of Nations (Gen. 10.22), and an Elamite king whose name has comedown to us as Kedor-Laomer is mentioned in a later chapter of Genesis (14.1), as well. Description: Bronze Spear Point, Amlash, Iran
region SOLD $229 plus shipping
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#8040: Spear Point, Middle Elamite period, 1,200 to 800 BC Historical Context: The Elamite Civilization started in the lowland Khuzestan about the late 4th and early 3rd millennia. Known as Elam, geographically, Elam included more than Khuzestan; it was a combination of the lowlands and the immediate highland areas to the north and east. Traditionally it was a federated governmental structure based an overlord ruling over vassal princes. In earliest times the overlord lived in Susa, which functioned as a federal capital. Elam appears in the Old Testament Table of Nations (Gen. 10.22), and an Elamite king whose name has comedown to us as Kedor-Laomer is mentioned in a later chapter of Genesis (14.1), as well. Description: Bronze Spear Point, Amlash, Iran
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#9572: Spear Point, HOLYLAND - Bronze Age, 1,200 to 800 BC Historical Context: Similar to spear points fund in Israel dated to late Bronze Age (1,200 to 800 BC) Description: Bronze Spear Point, Israel SOLD $189 plus shipping
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#9220: Spear Point, Luristan, 1,000 BC Historical Context: The region of Iran known as Luristan, consists of the upper valleys of the Zagros Mountain chain, bordered by Iraq to the west, by Burudjerd and Nahavand to the east, by Khuzestan (ancient Elam) to the south, and Kermanshah to the north. Luristan was more extensively settled in ancient times than it is today and used to be home to farming lands, which presently are no longer cultivated. Akkadian texts also mention the presence of Kassites, who were of Asiatic origin, in Luristan from the beginning of the second millennium B.C.. Various other tribes settled there at the end of the second millennium, and at the beginning of the first millennium B.C., these were followed by other tribes. The Assyrians commenced their military campaigns into the Zagros region beginning in the 9th century B.C. The Cimmerians and Scythians invaded the region in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., following a route running south of Lake Urumieh. Another wave of Iranian tribes occupied the area later. Description: Bronze Spear Point, Eastern
Mesopotamia / Western Iranregion SOLD $109 plus shipping
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ANCIENT HITTITES
#7764: Hittite Spear Point, 1400 - 1200 BC Deuteronomy 7:1 "When the Lord, your God,
brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of
it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites......seven
nations greater and mightier than yourselves." Attribution: Hittite, 1400 to 1200 BC Pay for your purchase by credit cards, personal check, or money
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