Herodium Oil Lamp. 23 B.C.E ROMAN AGE

Herodium Oil Lamp. 23 B.C.E ROMAN AGESize: 8. 5x6. 5 cm. 3. 3x2. 5 inch. Herodium (Latin), best known in Israel as Herodeion is a truncated cone shaped hill, 12 kilometres (7. 5 mi) south of Jerusalem and 5 kilometres (3. 1 mi) southeast of Bethlehem, in the Judaean Desert, West Bank. Herod The Great built a palace fortress and a small town at Herodium, between 23 and 15 BCE, and is believed to have been buried there. Herodium is 758 meters (2,487 ft) above sea level, the highest peak in

Most provincial mints except for Syracuse were closed or lost to invasions by the mid-7th century

near Dresden

or anastasis is the Christian belief that God raised Jesus after his crucifixion as first of the dead

Icon of Baptism

Size:- 3x1

width= 12 cm

Cooking pots were not usually decorated nor polished

11 widow's mite coins

29 height cm

and unlawfully taking Herodias

Sava when he visited the monastery

member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian