Two Lamps with Pagan Iconography from the Ḥorbat Bet Naṭif Lamp Workshop

This article presents a complete oil lamp and a fragment of an oil lamp, both decorated with unique iconography, recently uncovered during excavations at the Ḥorbat Bet Naṭif¹ terra-cotta workshop (Sion et al., this volume: Figs. 21–23).² The workshop was first identified nearly a century ago, after excavations within the Arab village of Beit Naṭṭif uncovered two hewn cisterns filled with ceramic production waste, including mold-made oil lamps and figurines (Baramki 1936). The Ḥorbat Bet Naṭif terra-cotta industry is dated to the Late Roman period (third–fourth centuries CE) and is a hallmark of the local material culture of