Lamps

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)
	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.
	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.
	12736	(none)	1929,1017.637	(none)	Copper lamp. Normal type, cut to shape of shell. Trough spout broken.
	13561	31-16-538	(none)	(none)	Shell. Cut as a lamp with trough spout.
	13740	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone lamp(?) Grey stone (basic diorite?) A shallow bowl with trough spout. [drawing]
	13786	31-16-537	(none)	(none)	Shell. Cut open as a lamp but not engraved.
	14040	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell. Cut as a lamp. Normal type.
	14061A	31-16-535	(none)	(none)	Lamp shell.
	14089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell. Cut as a lamp with trough spout. Normal type.
	14269	31-17-178	(none)	(none)	Copper lamp with trough spout. Normal type.
	15105	31-16-536	(none)	(none)	Shell. Cut as a lamp.
	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[
	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]
	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.
	19089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Conch shell. Cut as a lamp with bird's head engraved at the top of the opening.
	19091	35-1-63	(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'
	19744	35-1-43	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lamp.

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