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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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?) |
| 3057 | (none) | 1927,1003.243 | (none) | Fragment of engraved shell. Curved and engraved with flower pattern. |
| 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) | |
| 10004 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Lamp Ordinary flat shell type At the tip of the spout the metal is bent into a coil On the base inscr. "Mes-Kalam-dug" |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 6138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp holder? White shell. Shell shaped with curved handle. B. |
| 14061A | 31-16-535 | (none) | (none) | Lamp shell. |
| 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. |
| 17306 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp. Baked clay. Glazed. Part of rim missing pipe shaped. [drawing[ |
| 6924 | (none) | 1927,0527.301 | (none) | Lamp. Baked clay. Reddish. Thick spout at bottom of bowl, slightly upturned. Persian? Or Neo-Babylonian. E. ? | |
| 7007 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp. Bronze? Funnel shaped bowl with long spout issuing from bottom 3 small perforated handles, 2 on back, one on spout - for suspension. Persian? B. [drawing 1:2] |
| 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. |
| 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] | |
| 11795 | (none) | 1929,1017.60 | (none) | Lamp. White calcite. Normal form but with human-headed bull carved below in relief, head forming the spout. |
| 8679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Large shell. Cut as a lamp or ladle with a bird's head above the opening. |
| 2780A | (none) | 1927,1003.132 | (none) | Pottery vases. Buff ware: widely splayed lip and pointed below baseline. A. is reconstructed, B. fragmentary. Type CXLIII = L.107. Larsa period. Found associates with U.2781 and U.2782. ? No (10) etc. L.5. (6) | |
| 8313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell duck The body is made of a large shell cut open : the head is a pink limestone & was fixed on with a peg through a hole in the top end of the shell : round the top end of the shell, imitating the bird's breast colours, is incrustation, diamonds and triangles of lapis lazuli and shell set in bitumen. Some of the tesserae are loose and are preserved. [drawing] | |
| 12167 | (none) | 1928,1010.810 | (none) | Shell Lamp. Cut out of a large conch with engraved birds head. |
| 13561 | 31-16-538 | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp with trough spout. |
| 14089 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp with trough spout. Normal type. |
| 14040 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp. 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. |
| 11517 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp. |
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