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)
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)
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]
14061A 31-16-535 (none) (none) Lamp shell.
15105 31-16-536 (none) (none) Shell. Cut as a lamp.
13786 31-16-537 (none) (none) Shell. Cut open as a lamp but not engraved.
13561 31-16-538 (none) (none) Shell. Cut as a lamp with trough spout.
14269 31-17-178 (none) (none) Copper lamp with trough spout. Normal type.
19744 35-1-43 (none) (none) Alabaster lamp.
19091 35-1-63 (none) (none) Conch-shell. Cut as a lamp with bird's head engraved at the top of the opening.
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