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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 19089 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Conch shell. Cut as a lamp with bird's head engraved at the top of the opening. |
| 19448 | (none) | 1935,0112.107 | (none) | cut open as lamp, and with a knob base cut on the back,in which two holes (for fixing in a stand?) |
| 19593 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp(?). White limestone. A circular bowl 009 in diameter and 008 deep, on a tall pyramidical stand, square, its sides pierced by two tiers of long narrow vertical slots. |
| 19643 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone lamp? 'alabaster' |
| 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. |
| 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) | (none) | 1929,1017.636 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.529 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1935,0113.735 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1825,0503.76 | (none) | (none) |
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