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

Objects: Lamps and Incense Burners Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
18502B (none) (none) (none) Shells. [A] 1) A cowrie, large, cut to form of cup. [B] 2) Conch shell cut as a lamp. [C] 3) Shell . [drawing]
10024B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Lamps Silver, two were found, one inside the other: the outer lamp completely decayed, the inner in good condition.
12708B (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Copper bowl. Oval. [Type] LXIII. [B] (2) Copper lamp cut as a shell. Normal type. [C] (3) Copper pin. Type V B. Lapis ball head with copper caps. Badly broken. [D] (4) Beads. Broken carnelian lentoids, 2 lapis double conoids, 1 hematite double conoid.
(none) 33-35-10 (none) (none) unknown
(none) 31-43-457 (none) (none) unknown
(none) (none) 1932,1008.283 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1928,1009.472 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1933,1013.239 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1933,0113.239 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.636 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1931,1010.529 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1935,0113.735 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1927,0527.267 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1825,0503.76 (none) (none)
238 (none) (none) B15227 Clay stand. 2 fragments of (fitting together), rectangular, decorated with inverted dot-filled triangles. [drawing] [Annotated] Phil.
6812 (none) (none) B16235 Incense box. Clay. Square. E. Vol. VII 0076 x 0076 x 0035
10746 (none) (none) B16919, B17087 Calcite Lamp Translucent. White Decorated with a man-headed couchant bull in relief. Head horned and bearded. Beard, mane, and all hairy portions of body painted black. Much of paint remains and has been preserved.
10886 (none) (none) B17081 Silver Lamp Usual type: in good condition
10565 (none) (none) B17280 Copper Lamp usual shell type
10451 (none) (none) B17692 Gold Lamp bowl with sloped straight sides rising from a ridge foot, with narrow carinated rim: from the rim projects a trough spout. (orig. circular, now bent)
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Incense Burners - Lamps

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