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Tainted Stone Oil Lamp Authenticated

By Hershel Shanks

In 2001 or early 2002, we were asked, but declined, to publish an article about an unusual ancient oil lamp. The lamp has surfaced once again in the archaeological world. So I now describe it in the present tense:

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Footnotes

1.

See “Looting Forum,” Archaeology Odyssey 06:05, p. 10; “Learning from Unprovenanced Artifacts” in “BAR’s Crusades,” BAR 35:04; “Major New Forgeries Discovered by Professor GBSTMT,” BAR 31:03, p. 49.

2.

See Hershel Shanks, First Person: “Why BAR Publishes Article by Author Indicted for Forgery,” BAR 35:03.

3.

“Update: Finds or Fakes? The Other Shoe: Five Accused of Antiquities Fraud—The Alleged Forgeries: Oil Lamp,” BAR 31:02.

4.

André Lemaire, “Burial Box of James the Brother of Jesus,” BAR 28:06.

5.

Strata: “Forgery Trial Now in Hands of Judge,” BAR 37:01.

6.

“Forgery Case Collapses,” BAR 35:01.

Endnotes

1.

Amnon Rosenfeld, Shimon Ilani, Wolfgang E. Krumbein, Steve Daren, Howard R. Feldman, “A Stone Oil Lamp with Seven Nozzles from the Late Second Temple Period—First Century CE,” Liber Annuus, Volume XL (2010).