Roman Oil Jar. 63 B.C.E palestina mil pendants

Roman Oil Jar. 63 B.C.E palestina mil pendantsSize: 11x7. 5 cm. 4. 3x3 inch. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used for transporting and storing liquids and other products in this case probably mostly Spanish olive oil, which was landed nearby, and was the main fuel for lighting, as well as its

Pottery lamps were used as a source of light by all Romans

A handmade Armenian Icon of the birth of Mary

a result that shocked the Roman leadership

This is not surprising

John the Baptist'

oriental carpets and jewelry

Decorations were initially a stylized form of bird

But the principal event of the Feast of Lights – Christ’s Baptism – continued to be commemorated on the 6th of January

From the first century of the Christian Church

and Lutheran traditions

Despite the apparently inauspicious entry

Each carved in high relief