Ancient Bronze Oil Lamp Aladdin's? Ancient Rome c 100 BC? Interesting History

Description: Ancient Bronze Oil Lamp Aladdin's 2,000 Year Old Genie? Interesting HistoryAladdin’s 2,000 Year Old Lamp And The Real Story of this Oil Lamp THE ALLADIN STORY-The story of Aladdin is of unknown origin. It was later added to Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland in 1704. But the story originates in about the late 1300s from a Christian (Maronite) Syrian Story Teller named Hanna Diyab, who was born in Ottoman Syria in 1608. He told the tale to Antoine. It was believed that the story may have originated from a Chinese family that migrated to the Middle East about 100 BC. The basics of the story is that Aladdin (in some stories a lazy rich boy; in others a poor beggar boy in rags) finds a lamp. At that time all lamps were either clay or for the wealthier people Bronze. Aladdin rubs the lamp to clean it and a genie comes out that has been trapped inside for 10,000 years and grants Aladdin 3 wishes. THE STORY OF THIS LAMP-This lamp was purchased by me in the mid 1980s from a man who was selling antiquities at the Detroit Gem and Mineral Show at the Armory on Eight Mile Road. The seller stated that he was 104 (he looked that old and other vendors at the show that knew him said he was probably 100 years old-but who knows)and that his great grandfather had been an explorer and bought the lamp in the Middle East-he thought maybe Egypt. That would have been some time after the American Revolution I would guess-maybe 1779-1799. His great grandfather was told that the lamp was about 2,000 years old. The lamp appears to be bronze and is fairly heavy, weighing about 2 pounds, 11 ounces. It is approximately 13 inches long and about 6-1/2 inches tall at the fantail. The lid features the face of what at times looks human and others like a lion. The wire connecting the lid was probably a bronze pin that was lost long ago in the past. Now it is secured with a heavy solid single strand copper wire that shows old patina. The only part of this history that is certain is when and where I bought it, from whom, and what he told me. This is a very old bronze oil lamp artifact. It might only be a few hundred years old, or a thousand years or more old. So no guarantee on age or location where it was made. It is very interesting.So far no genie has presented itself :-)This is part of a collect of items that I had stored away in the attic. The items I were acquired from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Please see my other items on Ebay.This will be well packed and shipped Priority mail for fast safe arrival to you.Free Shipping.Thank you and best regards.

Price: 835 USD

Location: Center Line, Michigan

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