A Hungarian archaeologist could have found a matching piece for a 2,000-year-old oil lamp recently found in Jerusalem, the City of David said in a press release.
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Last Wednesday, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced it had found a rare artifact – a small oil lamp shaped like the left half of a grotesque face.
Found at the foundation of a building, the distinct bronze lamp was thought to be a lucky charm left there to bring good fortune to the residents.
The archaeologists found the lamp at the Pilgrimage Road section of the CIty of David – an ancient road once treaded by Jewish pilgrims on their way to the Temple Mount.
Soon after the researchers announced their find, Dr. Gabor Lassanyi, a Hungarian archaeologist, reached out to his Israeli peers to let them known that he had found what could be the second half of the artifact.
According to the press release, Lassanyi found a lamp designed as a right half of a grotesque face when excavating the ruins of the ancient Romana city of Aquincum, located in Budapest, back in 2012.
In his letter, he said that the lamp was also uncovered at the foundation of a building, and that the craftsmanship involved in creating such a piece, as well as its rarity, could suggest that the lamps could have been part of one set.
The two lamps have matching dimensions, the archaeologists said, and their design hints that it could have been possible to link the two sections into a single unit.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
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