Hexagram appears on Byzantine hexagram oil lamp from Shlomo Moussaieff collection.
Otto Friedrich August Meinardus, a German Coptologist and pastor (1925 – 2005), mentioned a few other Greco Roman terra cotta
lamps in his article "The Hexagram or the Magen David in Byzantine Art" (in the Bulletin of the Christian Archeological Society 8 (period IV)(1975-1976) p. 97-100):
Excavated in Jerash –
Goodenough, I, 161; VII, 358; I:142; VII, 251
Excavated in Samaria –
George Andrew Reisner et al, Harvard excavations in Samaria 1908-1910 Cambridge
1925 Vol. II Pl 96 c.
Excavated in Ephesus –
Forschungen in Ephesus, osterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut, Wien, Vol.
IV, 773, Pl. V
Excavated in Athenian Agora
– Judith Perlzweig, the Athenian Agora – Lamps from the Roman Period first to
seventh century, Princeton 1961, nos. 353, 2440.
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