Netanel Elimelech, director of the Mount Gerizim site for the Nature and Parks Authority and the Civil Administration, said that the ancient candle was found in the compound of the high priesthood and is estimated to date to a time when Mount Gerizim “had a glorious Samaritan temple city, parallel to the Jewish Temple City in Jerusalem, about 2,300 years ago.”The "candle" in the English text is clearly a mistranslation of the Hebrew of the original article. I don't have access to the latter, but I suspect the word was נֵר, which means "candle," but also an (ancient) "lamp." The photograph shows an ancient clay lamp.
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