A NORTH-AFRICAN RED TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP DEPICTING A LION With serrated edge and incised

With serrated edge and incised decoration

I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness

Kiddush is generally not recited at the third Shabbat meal

Hollow objects filled with pebbles or pieces of clay have been discovered at Iron Age sites

They were often placed in burial caves to collect the tears of mourners

A NORTH-AFRICAN RED TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP DEPICTING A LION With serrated edge and incisedAfrican red slip ware, also African Red Slip or ARS, is a category of terra sigillata, or fine Ancient Roman pottery produced from the mid 1st century AD into the 7th century in the province of Africa Proconsularis, specifically that part roughly coinciding with the modern country of Tunisia and the Diocletianic provinces of Byzacena and Zeugitana. It is distinguished by a thick orange red slip over a slightly granular fabric. Interior surfaces are