 It is the best documented surviving piece of Iznik pottery and enables scholars to fix the dates and provenance of other objects.The lamp was discovered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in the middle of the 19th century and is believed to have been associated with the refurbishment of the Dome of the Rock initiated by Suleiman the Magnificent.Around the base of the lamp are a series of inscribed cartouches giving the name of the decorator (Musli), a dedication to the İznik "Sufi" saint Eşrefzâde Rumi, and the date of AH 956 in the month of "Jumada'l-Ula" (AD 1549).