Lamps
This category includes objects containing oil for burning.
This category includes objects containing oil for burning. They they have a place for a wick, and are used to light rooms.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
 | 10820D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. (A)[A and G] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. 1-broken and part missing. (B) [B and H] 2 cockle shells with green paint (both broken) (C) Broken silver finger ring, 4 strands of wire, the 2 middle strands spiral. Part missing. (D) Large shell of the type used to serve as a lamp. Badly broken. (E) Few silver double conoids, a few lapis and remains of glazed frit ring beads. (F) A copper pin with a copper ball head. Badly broken. Type V. |
| 10886 | (none) | (none) | B17081 | Silver Lamp Usual type: in good condition | |
| 10974 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Lamp. Normal type, but unusually large, the top and end hopelessly decayed. |
| 11225 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp and Bowl. Corroded together. Lamp: head end slightly broken, normal shell type. |
| 11517 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp. |
| 11569 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Usual shell shape. One side badly broken & parts of it missing: otherwise well preserved. |
| 11597A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V. |
| 11741 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Usual type. |
| 11783 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Usual shell type. Extreme L. 190mm |
| 11795 | (none) | 1929,1017.60 | (none) | Lamp. White calcite. Normal form but with human-headed bull carved below in relief, head forming the spout. |
| 11865 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Normal shell type. |
| 12135 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster Lamp. In imitation of shell. At spout end a bearded bull in relief. |
| 12167 | (none) | 1928,1010.810 | (none) | Shell Lamp. Cut out of a large conch with engraved birds head. |
| 12316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp. Cut out of a large shell. Head of bird engraved upon it and in the head an inlaid eye of Lapis Lazuli. |
| 12446 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver lamp. Shell type. |
| 12447 | (none) | 1929,1017.62 | (none) | Silver lamp. Shell type. |
| 12707C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Stone vase, white calcite. For type see field ntoes. [Type] LXXVI. [B] (2) Stone bowl, white calcite. Broken badly. Type XIX. [C] (3) Copper lamp normal type cut as a shell. L. 140mm. L. of spout 100mm with ring at end for suspension. [D] (4) Beads. Carnelian rings probably a bracelet with thin silver wire bracelets elliptical, broken and decayed. [E] (5) Silver wire finger ring. [F] (6) Frontlet of beads. 1 lapis bugle and 2 carnelian bugles [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Shell. Much decayed. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli originally suspended on a silver wire. Subject. [I] (9) Copper strainer. Corroded with it. Normal type. [J] (10) A copper tumbler. Straight sided [Type] LVII. [K] (11) Copper axe type XXI. [L] (12) Copper holdfasts. Croquet hook type. [drawing] [M] (13) Copper pin. Type V B. Lapis ball head corroded with: [N] 14) Copper dagger type II B. |
| 12736 | (none) | 1929,1017.637 | (none) | Copper lamp. Normal type, cut to shape of shell. Trough spout broken. | |
| 13740 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone lamp(?) Grey stone (basic diorite?) A shallow bowl with trough spout. [drawing] |
| 14040 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp. Normal type. |
| 14089 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp with trough spout. Normal type. |
| 16700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp, with trough spout. Type found in Jemdet Nasr, 1st Dynasty, and Sargonid graves. Here found in a Larsa grave. |
| 17306 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp. Baked clay. Glazed. Part of rim missing pipe shaped. [drawing[ |
| 19038 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Conch shell. Cut open as a lamp, at the top of the opening is engraved a bird's head with inlaid lapis eye. |
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