Byzantine Lead Plaque with Menorah Inscribed by Jakob the Scribe. 5th-6th century A.D. Fish-shaped lead plaque with low-relief stamped panel, menorah and legend; impression from a wine amphora stamp, rectangular with a raised rim in the name of Jakob the Scribe: ??? - ??Y / ??? - ??? (retrograde); seven-branched menorah between a shofar (right) and lulav (palm frond) and an etrog (yellow citron). For a bronze stamp from Sardis with the Menorah between a bunch of grapes and a palm branch, now in the British Museum under inventory no.1888, 0511. 3.; cf. similar stamp with similar design in Nomos AG Auction 20 (10th July 2020) lot 396. 94 grams, 74 mm (3 in.). [No Reserve] From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. The first word is the name Iacobus' (Jakob) and the second word (??????) is likely derived from the Latin Libellarius (scribe or notary), which was borrowed by Hebrew as 'Liblar'.