Lamp Fragment

Brown ware, traces of red wash; short nozzle blackened by use; flat base in the center of which is an incised mark resembling a candle flanked on two sides by incised Greek letters, the letters on the left side of the mark are obscured while those on the right look like "WN"; circular body; impressed molded decoration on the body of a band of impressed dots and on the discus of leaves.

Fitzgerald: “From the area north of House III comes the lamp, on the bottom of which are the letters ZHX, WN. Lamps like these have been found a Jerusalem in association with late Roman objects and may be assigned to the third century.”