Lamps and Incense Burners

This category includes objects that hold burning embers or oil. They are made of various materials, and for various purposes.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
19745	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lamp. In the form of a shell. The five projections serving as spouts. On the under side at one end is carved a bat's head.
19770	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lamp.
19805	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone lamp. Alabaster. [drawing]
19874	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bird's head. Hard limestone (perhaps for a shell lamp?) [drawing 1:1] Style of Royal Tombs
19885	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone lamp. White limestone. Hemispherical bowl. On one side a short ledge handle, on the other a short spout, and on back side a double length spout. A line of raised square dots round the outside.
238	(none)	(none)	B15227	Clay stand. 2 fragments of (fitting together), rectangular, decorated with inverted dot-filled triangles. [drawing] [Annotated] Phil.
2780A	(none)	1927,1003.132	(none)	Pottery vases. Buff ware: widely splayed lip and pointed below baseline. A. is reconstructed, B. fragmentary. Type CXLIII = L.107. Larsa period. Found associates with U.2781 and U.2782. ? No (10) etc. L.5. (6)
3057	(none)	1927,1003.243	(none)	Fragment of engraved shell. Curved and engraved with flower pattern.
3333	29-174-25	(none)	(none)	Lamp. Fragmentary. Glazed pottery: stem broken: glaze of buff color with tracks of bluish green. Sectional sketch 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
6138	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lamp holder? White shell. Shell shaped with curved handle. B.
6147	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Brazier? Drab. Base concave, hole in middle, 4 holes round ?, 4 clay ribs running from middle hole 7 brazier per side.
6812	(none)	(none)	B16235	Incense box. Clay. Square. E. Vol. VII 0076 x 0076 x 0035
6924	(none)	1927,0527.301	(none)	Lamp. Baked clay. Reddish. Thick spout at bottom of bowl, slightly upturned. Persian? Or Neo-Babylonian. E. ?
7007	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lamp. Bronze? Funnel shaped bowl with long spout issuing from bottom 3 small perforated handles, 2 on back, one on spout - for suspension. Persian? B. [drawing 1:2]
8313	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell duck The body is made of a large shell cut open : the head is a pink limestone & was fixed on with a peg through a hole in the top end of the shell : round the top end of the shell, imitating the bird's breast colours, is incrustation, diamonds and triangles of lapis lazuli and shell set in bitumen. Some of the tesserae are loose and are preserved. [drawing]
8450	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper ladle? or lamp In imitation of shell? with lip spout and wooden flooring inside single roll of copper at end of spout. Broken and mended. Portion of sides missing. [drawing] not to scale
846	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay casket of badly-fired flakey black clay with incised & punctured design filled in with white. Broken & in bad condition. [drawing]
8679	(none)	(none)	(none)	Large shell. Cut as a lamp or ladle with a bird's head above the opening.
8902	(none)	1928,1009.186	(none)	Silver lamp. Base silver, in form of shell. [drawing]
9885	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Lamp Imitation of shell with hollow trough spout [drawing]